CDC: This Year's Flu Vaccine Not Very Effective
As predicted, this year's flu vaccine is doing a pretty crummy job. Health officials say a new study shows it's only 23 percent effective.
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As predicted, this year's flu vaccine is doing a pretty crummy job. Health officials say a new study shows it's only 23 percent effective.
Cases of the flu in New York have almost doubled in just a week. It's a national epidemic and the worst part of the season has yet to arrive.
Active monitoring has ended for the last of the 114 health care workers who cared for Dr. Craig Spencer – New York City's only Ebola patient so far.
A nurse once quarantined in New Jersey over Ebola concerns has won this battle with state officials over a mandatory quarantine in Maine.
Questions have arisen about a New Jersey hospital's setup to treat Ebola patients.
Kaci Hickox, who stepped outside to meet briefly with reporters Wednesday night, followed through with her promise by leaving her home Thursday.
Nurse Kaci Hickox traveled in a private vehicle to Maine after being released from University Hospital in Newark on Monday.
Dr. Craig Spencer, a member of Doctors Without Borders, became the city's first Ebola patient on Thursday.
The director of the CDC said the program will begin Monday and cover visitors as well as aid workers, journalists and other Americans returning from Liberia, Sierra Leone or Guinea.
A passenger was being evaluated at a hospital in Newark Tuesday, after reportedly being identified as possibly having been exposed to the Ebola virus.
Federal officials will be in New York City Tuesday with new guidelines to promote head-to-toe protection for health workers treating Ebola patients.
New York City is stepping up its training for city workers who could be the first ones to make contact with anyone with Ebola.
President Barack Obama is naming Ron Klain as the point man on the U.S. government's response to the Ebola crisis.
The federal government is ramping up its response to the Ebola crisis after a second Dallas nurse became ill and it was disclosed that she had been cleared to fly a day before her diagnosis.
Customs and health officials at Newark Liberty Airport will start taking the temperatures of passengers from three West African countries as part of a stepped up Ebola screening program.
A second health care worker at a Dallas hospital who provided care for the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the U.S. has tested positive for the disease, the Texas Department of State Health Services said.
The Giants face a tough opponent this weekend, but are preparing for another another just as carefully.
A World Health Organization official says there could be up to 10,000 new cases of Ebola per week within two months.
A breach of infection control resulting in a Dallas health worker getting Ebola raises fresh questions about whether hospitals truly can safely take care of people with the deadly virus.
New York City health officials said the teen tested negative for Ebola.
Airline passengers arriving from three West African countries will face temperature checks and other screening measures starting with John F. Kennedy International Airport on Saturday.
The mayor convened a meeting of city agencies at City Hall on Thursday as a display of readiness against the spread of the deadly virus.
This fact sheet helps explain the measures the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Department of Homeland Security's Customs and Border Protection, and their partners are taking at airports both in the United States and in affected countries in West Africa to prevent the spread of Ebola.
Eli Waller, who attended Yardville Elementary School, died at home on Sept. 25.
So far, New Jersey has nine confirmed cases of the virus in Camden, Burlington, Mercer, Middlesex, Morris, Essex, Passaic and Sussex counties.
