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The World Health Organization is expressing concern that ``an invisible caseload'' of Ebola patients is going undetected by government surveillance measures in West Africa. In a situation assessment issued today, the WHO notes that treatment centers opened over the past two weeks in Liberia were immediately overwhelmed by patients that had not been identified previously...

The charity an American doctor infected with Ebola works for says he's now recovered from the virus and will be released today from an Atlanta hospital. Dr. Kent Brantly and colleague Nancy Writebol were flown out of the West African nation of Liberia earlier this month and have been getting treatment at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta...

The use of an experimental drug to treat two Americans diagnosed with Ebola is raising ethical questions about who gets first access to unproven new therapies for the deadly disease. But some health experts fear debate over limited doses will distract from tried-and-true measures to curb the growing outbreak _ things like more rapidly identifying and isolating the sick...

Lawmakers are starting to look into the growing Ebola crisis on the African continent.

A New York City hospital says it's performing Ebola tests on a patient who recently traveled to West Africa. Mount Sinai Medical Center in Manhattan says a male patient with a high fever and gastrointestinal symptoms came in Monday. The hospital says it placed him in strict isolation and he's undergoing medical screenings...

The head of the World Health Organization says the Ebola outbreak in West Africa is out of control. WHO chief Margaret Chan warned today that the outbreak is moving faster than international efforts to control it. Chan met today with the presidents of Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Ivory Coast to talk about the worst outbreak in the history of the disease...

The CDC is out with a travel warning today as the deadliest outbreak of Ebola in history continues to march across West Africa. Health officials say all non-essential travel to Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea should be canceled. The death toll in that region is approaching 750, which includes one American...