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White House officials are pushing Govs. Cuomo and Chris Christie to dial down their mandatory quarantine rules and let the feds decide how to keep the deadly Ebola virus from spreading in the United States, sources told The Post on Sunday. “They are furious [with Cuomo and Christie] and can’t believe they rolled out [the regulations] without consultation, particularly since it’s still all federal officials doing the screening at the airports,” one source told The Post. The governors’ rules require that all aid workers returning from West Africa be quarantined for 21 days, even if they show no sign of...

A 5-year-old boy who just returned from West Africa was transported to Bellevue Hospital Sunday with possible Ebola symptoms, according to law-enforcement sources. The child was vomiting and had a 103-degree fever when he was carried from his Bronx home by EMS workers wearing hazmat suits, neighbors said.

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 new protocols that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are developing for health care workers treating patients with Ebola will be "much more stringent" than previous guidelines, said Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institutes of Health [NIH] National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. While Fauci said he didn't want to "preempt" new protocols, he said they will go "a step further" than the previous World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines that the CDC had followed for years.

Two-thirds of Americans support restricting entry into the United States by people who have been in countries affected by the Ebola virus, and nine in 10 support stricter screenings of people coming into the U.S. from such countries.

Top lawmakers are ramping up calls for the State Department to stop issuing visas to travelers from West African nations in the wake of the Ebola outbreak. An estimated 100 people per day are applying for U.S. visas at American embassies in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, House Foreign Affairs Committee Rep. Ed Royce, R-Calif., said in an Oct. 15 letter to Secretary of State John Kerry. “Of course, once these individuals are issued a visa by the embassy, they are free to travel to the United States,” Royce said. He added, “This is a reasonable and immediately implementable containment...

Warning that Americans are losing faith in their government's ability to stop Ebola, Republican lawmakers on Thursday pressed for a ban on travel to the U.S. from the West African outbreak zone. The White House said other measures are more effective. The administration spent the day trying anew to tamp down fear as the pool of Americans being monitored for symptoms expanded from Texas to Ohio. President Barack Obama said he might appoint a single official to lead the nation's efforts against the deadly disease. While a contentious congressional hearing focused on the three cases of Ebola diagnosed within the...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. —Kansas Sen. Jerry Moran said the country's defense against deadly diseases, including Ebola, has holes. Moran made the comment during a visit to the University of Kansas Hospital, which treated a man in isolation this week as it waited for Ebola tests to come back.

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)....

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus is pushing back against charges that Republicans are responsible for budget cut that have made it harder to contain the Ebola outbreak. “Obviously, this is just desperation on the part of this idiotic group,” Priebus said on Fox News’ “Fox and Friends on Tuesday, referring to the Agenda Project which released an ad that blames the GOP for slashing funding the Centers for Disease Control and the National Institutes of Health. (snip) Priebus fired back, saying, “They’re walking this dangerous path on trying to point out blame on Ebola when, in fact, if you...

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.

So, I just saw on CNN yet another medical "expert", this time a lady, who continues, when asked about a "travel ban" for East Africa, to state emphatically that a ban will not prevent people infected with Ebola from existing in the US with Ebola. She went on to say that, as a result of a travel ban, we would not be able to stamp out Ebola in East Africa. Pray tell, have I completely lost all remnants of any clear thinking, or is this complete nonsense? First of all, medical "experts" continue to conflate a travel ban with our...

A female hospital worker who provided care for the Ebola patient in Dallas who later died has now tested positive for the virus herself, health officials said Sunday in a statement. If that preliminary diagnosis is confirmed, it would be the first known case of the disease being contracted or transmitted in the U.S. A statement posted on the Texas Department of State Health Service's website said "confirmatory testing will be conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta." Those results were expected later on Sunday. "While this was obviously bad news, it is not news that...

From Press conference live right now: The 2nd person who contracted ebola was wearing the full protective gear as recommended by the CDC! Wow!