Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda declared global health emergency
At least 80 deaths have been reported in a new Ebola disease outbreak in Congo and Uganda, authorities said.
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At least 80 deaths have been reported in a new Ebola disease outbreak in Congo and Uganda, authorities said.
The cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak has docked at the Dutch port of Rotterdam for disinfection, wrapping up a troubled journey that put world health authorities on alert.
Health officials have identified at least 10 confirmed or suspected cases of hantavirus tied to an outbreak on the M/V Hondius cruise ship.
Two people from the MV Hondius cruise ship who have been under observation at Emory University Hospital for days are now reunited wit other passengers in Nebraska.
The number of people being monitored for hantavirus in the United States has grown to 41, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday.
An American on the repatriation flight began showing symptoms of hantavirus and another "tested mildly PCR positive for the Andes virus," the Department of Health and Human Services says.
A passenger believed to have been exposed to the hantavirus while aboard the MV Hondius cruise ship has tested negative for the virus while at Emory University Hospital.
Infectious disease experts have sought to reassure people that the hantavirus cruise ship outbreak poses very low risks to the wider public.
The head of the World Health Organization says "our work is not over" to contain hantavirus after evacuations from a cruise ship hit by a deadly outbreak of the illness.
Two people believed to have been exposed to hantavirus arrived in Atlanta on Monday and were taken to Emory University Hospital after being transported through Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, federal health officials confirmed.
Federal officials will provide an update Monday as 17 Americans exposed to hantavirus on MV Hondius return for monitoring; one shows symptoms, another tests "mildly" positive.
More than 100 people from a cruise ship dealing with an outbreak of the rare and deadly hantavirus are set to be disembarked.
The MV Hondius is currently traveling to the Canary Islands, where the 147 people on board will be methodically off-boarded and flown home.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has activated its 24/7 emergency center in Atlanta to monitor the recent deadly hantavirus outbreak onboard the MV Hondius.
Georgia health officials are monitoring two residents who returned from the MV Hondius cruise ship linked to a hantavirus outbreak.
A hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius cruise ship has killed three people and infected multiple others, officials said.
Passengers aboard the ship are in good spirits but may have to quarantine for "eight weeks," a World Health Organization official told CBS News.
A suspected outbreak of the rare hantavirus on a cruise ship in the Atlantic off Africa killed three people and sickened at least three others, health officials say.
Angel Reese etched her name in the record books Saturday afternoon, becoming the fastest player in WNBA history to reach 1,000 career rebounds, as the Atlanta Dream dominated the Indiana Fever 113-96 at State Farm Arena.
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The family of a 15-year-old girl who died after suffering a medical emergency during volleyball practice has filed a lawsuit against Grady Hospital Corporation and Grady EMS, alleging emergency responders failed to provide timely ambulance service when help was needed.
Georgia's two U.S. senators are speaking out after city officials announced the Department of Homeland Security is no longer pursuing a proposed 10,000-bed immigration detention facility in Social Circle.