Ebola Virus Alert

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CNN’s Jim Sciutto speaks to the family of Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan about his condition.
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Emergency rooms in New York City are taking every precaution to identify potential Ebola patients. But their level of vigilance is nothing new in a city that has seen it all. Dr. Jon LaPook reports.
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Why was Ebola patient Duncan initially turned away from the hospital even though he had symptoms of the disease? Hari Sreenivasan speaks with Stephan Morris of the Center for Strategic and International Studies about lessons from the handling of the first case of the disease in the U.S.
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A Dallas’ hospital reaction to an Ebola patient has other hospitals being more cautious.
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 This is the second reported case in the United States. CBS 2’s Marlie Hall has more.
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A second nurse who has contracted Ebola after treating deceased Ebola patient, Thomas Eric Duncan, flew on a commercial flight from Cleveland to Dallas after developing a slight fever. According to the director of the CDC, Dr. Tom Friedan, Amber Joy vinson should not have been flying. Vinson flew to
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The second Dallas nurse diagnosed with Ebola shouldn’t have traveled on a commercial flight, said CDC director Tom Frieden. But the CDC has now confirmed that it gave Amber Vinson permission to return to Dallas by air after making a trip to Ohio.
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Ron Klain, the president’s pick to coordinate the Ebola response, has been criticized for not having a background in public health. To assess the challenges and criticism facing Klain, Judy Woodruff talks to Pamela Cipriano of the American Nurses Association and Dr. Amesh Adalja of the Infectious
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The fear of Ebola has become a political factor in the United States, where President Barack Obama’s Democratic Party is fighting to retain control of the Senate in congressional elections next month. VOA White House correspondent Luis Ramirez reports the one fatality from Ebola on U.S. soil and t