Health: Mother Whose Son Died From Flu Complications Urges Others To Get Vaccinated
While there's a lot of fear about Ebola now, health officials say the flu is more dangerous. But it's preventable, something one mom learned the hard way.
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While there's a lot of fear about Ebola now, health officials say the flu is more dangerous. But it's preventable, something one mom learned the hard way.
A special Ebola training session for Camden County first responders. 3 On Your Side Health Reporter Stephanie Stahl shows us the newest protocols to guard against the deadly virus.
Both incumbent congressman Mike Fitzpatrick and challenger Kevin Strouse believe significant resources should be sent to West Africa to help battle Ebola, but they differ on what we should be doing here at home.
More than 200 people showed up at Camden County College, where doctors from Cooper University Hospital dispensed the latest information -- which keeps changing.
Dom Giordano talked with Gabriel Williams, the Minister of the Liberian Consulate, on Talk Radio 1210 WPHT about confronting the Ebola crisis.
"It was my decision not to get him vaccinated, and as a mom I will always live with that," said Diane McGowan (in yellow), whose son Martin died after contracting influenza.
Philadelphia airport workers, with the help of one of the largest service employee unions, held a press conference saying they are not properly equipped to prevent the spread of Ebola.
Bailey Farms Inc has issued a voluntary recall of Serrano, Anaheim, Red Cherry Hot and Finger Got Peppers as of October 22, 2014.
As panic over Ebola spreads in some areas of this country, many African immigrants living in Philadelphia say public ignorance about the continent and the disease has led to misdirected Ebola stigma and discrimination.
"Not only are they trained and are they well-prepared, every single health care institution represented in the room said that they can handle a patient who has this disease," noted US representative Chaka Fattah.
Beginning Monday, travelers from Liberia, Sierra Leone and New Guinea will be given information cards and a thermometer to measure their body temperatures twice a day for three weeks.
Temple University says its preparedness efforts began over the summer, before the start of the semester, when students coming from the Ebola-affected countries were contacted.
Stepping up their vigilance against Ebola, federal authorities said Wednesday that everyone traveling into the U.S. from Ebola-stricken nations will be monitored for symptoms for 21 days.
Although concerns are mounting across the nation of Ebola exposure, doctors fear the focus could be diverting attention from another potential threat: the flu.
Authorities have determined that a second child who attended a New Jersey preschool where a child died of enterovirus D68 did not have the respiratory illness.
