All travelers whose flights originate in outbreak countries must enter the US through 1 of 5 airports.
The guidance emphasizes unexposed skin and suggests either N-95s or PAPRs for respiratory protection.
Hospital executive faced tough questions from Congress about speed bumps in the response to the quickly evolving Ebola situation.
The Ebola virus responsible for an outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) that began in July bears similarities to previous outbreaks in equatorial Africa but is distinct from the virus causing the ongoing epidemic in West Africa and has a different zoonotic origin, say results of a study today in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The nurse had flown from Ohio hours before she reported having a fever.
The CDC has set up a special team to assist any hospital that has a confirmed Ebola patient.
Much of the meeting focused on effective vaccine, as a US official announced a large clinical trial in Liberia in December.
The event has caused the CDC to rethink approaches and investigate further the role of PPE.
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.
