Ebola

President Barack Obama has canceled a scheduled trip to Rhode Island and New York Thursday to remain at the White House and monitor the government's Ebola response. The change in plans marks the second day in a row that Obama put off travel to attend to heightened concerns about Ebola in West Africa and the emergence of two cases in the United States...

Another healthcare worker in Dallas is testing positive for Ebola. A Texas Department of State Health Services spokesperson says the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas worker reported a fever on Tuesday and was immediately isolated...

An American video journalist being treated for Ebola continues to show improvement and is described by hospital officials as steadily heading in the right direction. Taylor Wilson, spokesman for Nebraska Medical Center, said Sunday doctors are pleased with 33-year-old Ashoka Mukpo's progress and that he was better Sunday than the day before...

A U.S. House hearing on the Ebola crisis is underway in Texas. Opening the hearing, Texas Republican Mike McCaul called Ebola a threat to the U.S. homeland. The chairman of the Homeland Security Committee said the crisis is unfolding at an alarming pace in West Africa. ...

BOSTON (AP) — Gov. Deval Patrick is trying to reassure residents about the threat of Ebola and says the state is taking steps to prepare for the unlikely discovery of an Ebola-infected patient here. Patrick said on his monthly radio show Thursday on WGBH-FM that there have been no cases of Ebola reported in Massachusetts and the likelihood of the disease making an appearance is very low... Read Mo

Over two dozen lawmakers on Capitol Hill want travelers from West Africa banned from the U.S. until the Ebola outbreak is under control. Twenty-three House Republicans and three Democrats have sent a letter to President Obama that asks the State Department to impose a travel ban and restrict visas issued to people from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone...

Family and friends are telling the life story of Thomas Eric Duncan, the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the United States. The 42-year-old died in a Dallas hospital Wednesday morning. Duncan grew up next to a leper colony in Liberia and was forced to flee by civil war before returning years later to find the country ravaged by Ebola...

The Liberian man who was diagnosed last month with Ebola, the first such case in the United States, died Wednesday morning at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas.

A Dallas hospital spokesman says the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the United States has died. Wendell Watson of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital says Thomas Eric Duncan died Wednesday morning. Duncan arrived in Dallas September 20 from Liberia and fell ill a few days later...

With Ebola concerns growing, President Obama says plans are underway for additional airline passenger screening in West Africa and the U.S. After a White House meeting with top health officials, the President again called the Ebola outbreak a significant national security threat...