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The Centers for Disease Control warned that doctors must prepare for a wave of mumps, measles, leishmaniasis, and worse still, polio. Already, 20 people arriving from Afghanistan have been diagnosed with mumps or measles.

A doctor in New York City who recently returned from treating Ebola patients in Guinea tested positive for the Ebola virus Thursday, becoming the city’s first diagnosed case. The doctor, Craig Spencer, was rushed to Bellevue Hospital on Thursday and placed in isolation while health care workers spread out across the city to trace anyone he might have come into contact with in recent days. A further test will be conducted by the federal Centers for Disease Control to confirm the initial test. While officials have said they expected isolated cases of the disease to arrive in New York eventually,...

The past few days events have become deadly serious on the fronts of the Ebola outbreak and Terrorism. And yet the country’s ‘leadership’ refuses to take these threats seriously. From past experience we know that the Obola regime will respond to their myriad scandals and crimes with a tried and true method:A) Lie through their teeth B) Blame someone else C) Scream RACISM [not necessarily in this order] But let’s lay out the facts for all to see:1). It’s been President Obola’s decision [and continues to be] to NOT Secure the border from Terrorists and Ebola infected illegal invaders. 2)....

KANSAS CITY, Kan.—The University of Kansas Hospital reports an individual called and then came into the hospital early this morning with a high fever and other serious symptoms. Because the patient had recently worked on a medical boat off the west coast of Africa, the patient was immediately isolated on a special infectious disease unit and is undergoing tests. Hospital staff met the patient wearing personal protection equipment and followed the hospital’s plan for this kind of illness.

Ebola may already be in Britain, it was feared last night, after a businessman who had travelled to Macedonia became the first Briton to die from the disease. Macedonian officials confirmed that the 56-year-old, who has not been named, had been suffering from fever, vomiting and internal bleeding and that his condition had deteriorated rapidly. "These are all symptoms of Ebola, which raises suspicions with this patient," said Dr. Jovanka Kostovska of the health ministry's commission for infectious diseases.

Airport workers who clean Delta Airlines planes walked off the job Wednesday night in a day-long strike against Ebola-related safety concerns at LaGuardia Airport. Between 100 to 200 employees of Air Serv, which cleans Delta planes at Terminal D, went on strike at 10 p.m. and will return to work for the Thursday night shift at 6:30 p.m., according to 32BJ Service Employees International Union.

Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins alerted the news media Sunday morning that one of the 46 people believed to have contact with to Ebola patient, Thomas Eric Duncan, appears to be missing. “We are working to find a low-risk individual who has been identified by our local team as a contact. We have our Dallas County Sheriff’s Department and Dallas Police Department teams on the ground,” Jenkins said in a statement released by his office at 10:30 a.m. The person was not identified. “We are working to locate the individual and get him to a comfortable, compassionate place where we...

Wednesday on Newsmax TV's "The Steve Malzberg Show," former CBS News correspondent Sharyl Attkisson said the Obama administration is refusing to tell Congress where the ten of thousands of unaccompanied minors who crossed the U.S.-Mexican Border this summer were sent after they were processed though holding centers along the border. Attkisson said the Obama administration seems to be intentionally stonewalling by not answering letters from members of Congress or reporters questions.