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Thursday, October 16, 2014

Ebola Update 10/16

Ebola in US: Virus will spread around the world if allowed to 'rage without control' in West Africa :
President Barack Obama insisted that the chances of a serious outbreak of Ebola on US soil remained "very, very low", but warned the epidemic will "spread globally" if allowed the rage without control in West Africa


Obama May Send National Guard to Liberia to Fight Ebola: Sources:
President Barack Obama is expected to issue an executive order Thursday paving the way for the deployment of National Guard forces to Liberia to help contain the Ebola outbreak there, sources told NBC News.
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebola-virus-outbreak/obama-may-send-national-guard-liberia-fight-ebola-sources-n227336

Air France jet isolated at Madrid airport amid Ebola fear:
The passenger on Air France 1300 from Lagos, Nigeria, had started shivering with a fever during the flight which landed at Barajas International Airport in the Spanish capital.


U.S. Ebola Cases May Exceed Two Dozen by November, Researchers Say:
There could be as many as two dozen people in the U.S. infected with Ebola by the end of the month, according to researchers tracking the virus with a computer model.


Experts Offer Steps for Avoiding Public Hysteria, a Different Contagious Threat:
As health officials scramble to explain how two nurses in Dallas became infected with Ebola, psychologists are increasingly concerned about another kind of contagion, whose symptoms range from heightened anxiety to avoidance of public places to full-blown hysteria.

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