Experts today pushed for new ways to test Ebola treatments, and two groups renewed their urgent pleas for aid.
Confirmation has been received that a healthcare worker in Uganda who became ill Sep11 and died Sep 28 had Marburg virus, a relative of the Ebola virus causing havoc in several West African countries. The last Marburg outbreak in Uganda, affecting 20 people and killing 9 of them, was in 2012, according to a notice from the World Health Organization (WHO) today.
As West Africa cases top 8,000, the patient in Texas dies and the CDC announces airport screening steps.
The economic impact of Ebola on West Africa could range from $3.8 billion to $32.6 billion by the end of next year, depending on how quickly it can be contained and how far it spreads in the region, the World Bank reported today in a press release.
The case could mark the first local transmission of Ebola outside of West Africa.
Two new MERS cases were confirmed in Taif, Saudia Arabia, in recent days, while the country's Ministry of Health (MOH) reported deaths in two other case-patients.
The WHO enphasizes that the virus is known to spread only through contact with bodily fluids, and the CDC probes environmental persistence.
Of the 50 people identified for 21-day fever monitoring, only 10 had high-risk exposure.
So far no other infections have been found in connection with the first US-detected Ebola case.
As a WHO panel mapped out how to speed vaccine delivery, outbreak cases topped 7,000.
