By CHINEDU ASADU and MOGOMOTSI MAGOME ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The World Health Organization has declared the Ebola disease outbreak in Congo and Uganda a public health emergency of international concern. Africa’s top public health body confirmed the outbreak in Congo’s Ituri province on Friday. By the following day, authorities…
By JEAN-YVES KAMALE, MONIKA PRONCZUK and WILSON MCMAKIN KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — An American doctor is among the newly confirmed cases in an outbreak in Congo of a rare variant of the Ebola virus with no approved vaccines or therapeutics, a Congolese official said…
Klain served as coordinator to the Ebola response during the 2014 outbreak.
Last month, 15 Gulfport Seabees were ordered into isolation after returning from a mission in Liberia, Africa, where they could have been exposed to the Ebola virus.
The 24-hour Mississippi Ebola Hotline has now been activated through funding from the Mississippi State Department of Health (M.S.D.H.)
The State Epidemiologist says Mississippi hospitals are set to handle any cases of Ebola should they appear, but health officials say the public should be more focused on their risk for the flu, which kills about 36,000 people each year.
Monday, officials with the Gulfport-Biloxi International Airport say they are more than prepared if there is an Ebola outbreak at the facility.
Ebola is a dangerous illness that just claimed the life of the only person to have been diagnosed on American soil.
The U.S. is deploying 3,600 troops to build hospitals and train health workers in Liberia and President Obama is now considering additional precautions at airports, the main entryway for Ebola into the U.S.
At the request Gov. Phil Bryant, the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency (M.E.M.A.), Mississippi State Department of Health (M.S.D.H.), and several other key state agencies are working closely together to ensure a coordinated response with the state's public health emergency plans.
Because of how easily the virus can spread, News 25 wanted to find out if local hospitals are prepared for an outbreak.