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The second infection of a Texas health care worker with the dangerous Ebola virus is "very concerning," officials said Wednesday, warning more US cases were possible in the coming days. Both became infected while caring for a Liberian patient, Thomas Eric Duncan, at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas. The second woman should not have boarded a domestic flight in the days before she was diagnosed, though there was an "extremely low likelihood" that she could have infected fellow travelers, said Thomas Frieden, the head of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "She was in a group of individuals...

CBS4 has learned that Quest Diagnostics, the nation’s largest diagnostic lab company, has told doctors, hospitals and health care providers nationwide the company will not accept blood samples suspected of being infected with Ebola; and will not knowingly allow any patients suspected of having Ebola into Quest offices. In a message sent Oct. 11 to hospitals and doctors, Quest Diagnostics said, “Patients with known or suspected Ebola hemorrhagic fever should not be referred to Quest Patient Service Centers or Quest In-Office Phlebotomists for specimen collections of any type.” CBS4 contacted Wendy Horst, a Quest spokesperson. She said, “We have informed...

A Liberian Ebola patient was left in an open area of a Dallas emergency room for hours, and the nurses treating him worked for days without proper protective gear and faced constantly changing protocols, according to a statement released late Tuesday by the largest U.S. nurses' union. Nurses were forced to use medical tape to secure openings in their flimsy garments, worried that their necks and heads were exposed as they cared for a patient with explosive diarrhea and projectile vomiting, said Deborah Burger of National Nurses United. SNIP---- The nurses alleged that: -Duncan was kept in a non-isolated area...

The UN says the ebola outbreak must be controlled within 60 days or else the world faces an "unprecedented" situation for which there is no plan. The United Nations made the stark warning as it warned that the disease "is running faster than us and it is winning the race". Nearly 9,000 cases of ebola have been reported so far in West Africa, including 4,447 deaths. "The WHO advises within 60 days we must ensure 70% of infected people are in a care facility and 70% of burials are done without causing further infection," said Anthony Banbury, the UN's deputy...

A man in his 40’s who complained of a high fever and other serious symptoms contacted and then entered The University of Kansas Hospital at about 6 a.m. on Monday. The hospital says that the patient recently worked as a medical officer on a commercial ship off the west coast of Africa and has a low-to-moderate risk of Ebola. According to a news release, the patient is being kept in strict isolation and tests are being done to determine a diagnosis. Dr. Lee Norman, chief medical officer of the hospital, says that there are many other diseases that fit the...

A man with Ebola-like symptoms is being taken by ambulance to a Boston hospital. Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, 11 Grossman Drive, was reportedly being evacuated while doctors assessed a possible case of Ebola, according to fire and police radio transmissions from the scene. A man who recently traveled to West Africa was being isolated outside the center inside an ambulance, according to fire department officials. He is now being escorted by police to a Boston hospital. The driver of the ambulance is wearing a mask and haz mat suit. The Braintree police and fire departments, Department of Public Health and...

The Madrid regional government has not given health personnel enough training to deal with Ebola properly, including the Spanish nurse Teresa Romero, who is now the first person in the world to contract the virus outside Africa, says Juan Carlos Mejías. Romero was in contact with one of two ill Spanish priests who died of the disease in Madrid’s Carlos III Hospital. Juan Carlos Mejías is the leader of SATSE, the main trade union in Spain’s health sector, representing 100,000 members. Mejías spoke with EurActiv Spain’s Fernando Heller. Did the health personnel in the Carlos III Hospital have enough training...

Brazil recorded on Thursday the first suspected case of Ebola in the city of Cascavel, Paraná. The Ministry of Health reported that it is a 47 year old man, from Guinea, one of the African countries most affected by the disease. He arrived in Brazil on September 19, having done before scale in Morocco. The man is being held in complete isolation. According to a spokesperson for the City of Cascavel, he will be transferred to Rio. According to the Ministry of Health, other suspicions had been raised before in the country were just rumors. This is the first in...

Carlos III Hospital in Madrid, the health center where Ebola victim Teresa Romero is being treated, is having to draft in extra staff given that nurses are refusing to work with cases – or suspected cases – of the virus. A number of other patients are being monitored in the hospital after having come into contact with Romero, although none so far has been confirmed as having contracted the virus. “There are members of staff who are canceling their contracts so that they don’t have to enter [rooms with Ebola cases],” explains Elvira González, provincial vice-secretary of the SAE nurses’...

Worries over the worldwide spread of Ebola grew Thursday after three more health workers were quarantined in Spain and North America threw up border controls at main ports of arrival from the plagued African states. The United States and Canada announced new screening measures at major airport hubs to check travellers for symptoms of the deadly disease, and pressure grew for other nations to follow their lead. The Madrid hospital treating infected Spanish auxiliary nurse, Teresa Romero, also announced her condition had worsened on Thursday. Romero, the first person known to have been infected with Ebola outside of Africa, has...

A building was cordoned off on the outskirts of Paris on Thursday after a suspected case of Ebola was reported to authorities. Around sixty people have been effectively quarantined, according to reports, while checks are carried out. According to media reports in France a building in the suburb of Cergy-Pointoise, to the north west of Paris was cordoned off after reports that a person had fallen ill with 'Ebola-like symptoms". However the latest reports suggest it may have been a false alarm. It has been reported the sick person is from Guinea, one of the countries in West Africa hit...

A British man has died in Macedonia of suspected Ebola, Macedonian officials have said. A second Briton had also shown symptoms of the virus, the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Reuters. The Foreign Office said they were investigating both reports. "We are aware of the reports and are urgently looking into them," said a spokesman. The man died at the clinic of Infectious Disease in Skopje. The doctors, according to the symptoms exhibited when the patient was admitted, believe he had Ebola, Macedonian station Alfa TV reported. When admitted to the hospital, the patient was unable to...

The condition of a Spanish nurse's assistant ill with Ebola has worsened, a doctor told reporters Thursday. The update on Teresa Romero Ramos came two days after she was admitted to the same Madrid hospital where she had previously helped treat an Ebola patient, and 10 days after she started feeling ill. Dr. Yolanda Fuentes, who works at the Carlos III hospital, said Romero's condition had worsened but declined to give further details. Romero became ill after she helped treat an Ebola-stricken Spanish missionary. Her case has prompted concerns from her fellow medical professionals about whether they are properly equipped...

AUTHORITIES are performing tests for the deadly Ebola virus on a Queensland woman who recently returned from Sierra Leone. The 57-year-old woman is being assessed at Cairns Hospital. She has recently returned to Cairns from treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone. Queensland’s Chief Health Officer Dr Jeanne Young said the woman is a Red Cross volunteer who was working in Sierra Leone and has placed herself in quarantine. She exhibited no symptoms until she recorded her own temperature and recorded an increase. Health authorities are now performing tests. They hope to have the result later today

Teresa Romero Ramos sought out help three times. Finally, one week after first seeing a doctor, Romero found out why she felt so sick: She had Ebola. Even after her Ebola test came back positive at Madrid's Alcorcon hospital, Romero had to wait. According to a worker at that hospital, Romero lay in the emergency room -- exposed to other patients as well as medical staff, going back and forth -- for eight hours before being transferred to a hospital in the Spanish capital that specializes in infectious diseases.

Three more health workers in Spain have been admitted to hospital for monitoring for Ebola, including two doctors who had contact with a nurse infected with the disease. The third new patient is a nurse who had contact with one of the two Spanish missionaries who died from Ebola after being repatriated from west Africa for treatment. "He is showing symptoms and a test has been carried out but we have not received the result yet," said a spokesman for the Madrid hospital. Meanwhile, two people who had previously been under observation in hospital have been cleared of the disease...

A doctor treating the Spanish nurse's assistant who's the first person to contract Ebola outside Africa in the current outbreak said Wednesday that she may have been exposed while removing her protective suit. Dr. German Ramirez said the woman, who is in isolation at Madrid's Carlos III Hospital, had told him it was possible that she might have had contact with the suit -- possibly the gloves -- on her face. "That's what we were working on -- on the errors possibly made while removing the protective suit," he told reporters outside the hospital. "I've spoken to her three times,...

A Spanish nurse has contracted Ebola after treating two patients who died from the disease at a Madrid hospital, the government said Monday, in the first known case of transmission outside of Africa. Health Minister Ana Mato said an emergency protocol had been put in place after two tests confirmed the woman had been infected with the virus, which has claimed almost 3,500 lives in west Africa this year. "We are working to guarantee the safety of all citizens," she told a televised news conference. The woman was part of a medical team at Madrid's La Paz-Carlos III hospital that...

A fire station was quarantined and a police station evacuated Friday evening after a man claiming to be from Africa showed up at the Baton Rouge Police precinct on Highland Road ill. Police said, given the current situation with Ebola across the globe and the events in Texas, they decided to take precautionary measures. The measures included calling medical responders, HAZMAT and evacuating the police station between downtown and LSU. Officers said they were concerned because the man was obviously ill, a spokesperson said. The fire station near the North Gates of LSU was closed Friday night and fire fighters...

A patient at a Toronto hospital is being tested for Ebola as well as other possible illnesses. Toronto’s University Health Network (UHN) confirmed a patient was admitted to one of the four hospitals within the health network with a fever, and had recently traveled to West Africa. Advertisement Related Stories • Traffic moves past Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas where a patient has been diagnosed with the Ebola virus on September 30, 2014 in Dallas, Texas. The patient who had recently traveled to Dallas from Liberia marks the first case of this strain of Ebola that has been diagnosed outside...