Liberia Restricting Media Access To Ebola Patients

Liberia is instituting new rules to restrict media access to Ebola patients. Journalists must now have official permission to photograph or film patients being treated for the deadly disease. Government officials cite privacy issues, but the new policy was announced the same day an NBC News cameraman from Providence, Rhode Island  became the first foreign journalist to test positive for Ebola.

Meantime, a person who recently returned from Nigeria is being tested for Ebola in a Washington, DC hospital. The patient is displaying symptoms associated with Ebola and is being evaluated at Howard University Hospital.

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is authorizing a deployment of up to four-thousand U.S. troops to help deal with the Ebola crisis in West Africa.

Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said the Americans will be constantly monitored by health officials. In a briefing, Admiral Kirby said it is unlikely that any U.S. troops will be operating in high-risk areas or anywhere near Ebola patients. {Metro Networks Inc.)