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Health workers walk toward an area used for Ebola quarantine in Kayes, Mali, on October 25, 2014. (AP Photo/Baba Ahmed)
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A health worker checks the temperature of a baby entering Mali from Guinea at the border in Kouremale, on October 2, 2014. (Reuters/Joe Penney)
Mali’s first Ebola case, a 2-year-old girl, dies: officials
Bamako, Reuters—A two-year-old girl who was Mali’s first case of Ebola died on Friday, shortly after the World Health Organization warned that many people had potentially been exposed to the virus because she was taken across the country while ill. The girl had...Caption:
The entrance to Bellevue Hospital where Doctor Craig Spencer is being treated in an isolation unit. (AFP Photo/Timothy A. Clary)
Doctor with Ebola in Manhattan hospital after return from Guinea
New York, Reuters—A doctor who worked in West Africa with Ebola patients was in an isolation unit in New York on Friday after testing positive for the deadly virus, becoming the fourth person diagnosed with the disease in the United States and the first in its largest...Caption:
A member of the NGO U Fondation leaves a house after visiting quarantined family members suffering from the Ebola virus, on October 16, 2014, in Monrovia, Liberia. (AFP Photo/Zoom Dosso)
Obama open to appointing Ebola ‘tsar’, opposes travel ban
Washington, Reuters—President Barack Obama said he was considering appointing an Ebola “tsar” to coordinate the fight against the virus in the United States, but he remained opposed to a ban on travel from West Africa. Obama’s administration is...Caption:
US President Barack Obama holds a meeting with cabinet agencies coordinating the government’s Ebola response in the White House, Washington, on October 15, 2014. (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque)