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Freelance journalist Ashoka Mukpo, who contracted Ebola in Liberia, arrived at the University of Nebraska Medical Center today, becoming the second patient with the deadly disease to be treated there.
Why is he being sent to Nebraska instead of some other facility? Because the hospital is home to the largest of four high-level biocontainment patient care units in the U.S. Continue reading “Why Ebola Patients Are Getting Treatment In Nebraska”
Growing up in a low income neighborhood in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Marvin Callahan intimately knew the struggle of poverty from a young age. His father went to work every day and his mother stayed home to take care of the children. The family barely scraped by on his meager salary.
Callahan recalls going to Catholic school and having to bring in his tuition in a little envelope each month. His family was only able to pay a fraction of the full price. Continue reading “This Teacher Gives Money From His Own Pocket To Feed His Hungry First-Graders”
New York Times – by MATT FLEGENHEIMER
Michael R. Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York City, has had a longstanding fondness for Britain — choosing London as the European home for both his company and charity, trading advice with the city’s mayor, Boris Johnson, and throwing parties at his two-story apartment on Cadogan Square.
On Monday, the affection was returned in earnest: Queen Elizabeth II named Mr. Bloomberg an honorary knight. The announcement cited Mr. Bloomberg’s “prodigious entrepreneurial and philanthropic endeavors, and the many ways in which they have benefited the United Kingdom and the U.K.-U.S. special relationship.” Continue reading “Bloomberg Named an Honorary Knight”
The Guardian – by Rafaela von Bredow and Veronika Hackenbroch
Professor Piot, as a young scientist in Antwerp, you were part of the team that discovered the Ebola virus in 1976. How did it happen?
I still remember exactly. One day in September, a pilot from Sabena Airlines brought us a shiny blue Thermos and a letter from a doctor in Kinshasa in what was then Zaire. In the Thermos, he wrote, there was a blood sample from a Belgian nun who had recently fallen ill from a mysterious sickness in Yambuku, a remote village in the northern part of the country. He asked us to test the sample for yellow fever. Continue reading “‘In 1976 I discovered Ebola – now I fear an unimaginable tragedy’”
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Declared dead by Social Security? Believe it or not, that’s what happens to thousands of living people each year.
“We are sorry for your loss. Please accept our sincere apology,” a letter from the Social Security Administration to Vaso Pavlovic reads, regarding the death of his mother-in-law, Kosara Mladenovic. Continue reading “Social Security Keystroke Mistake Declares Elderly Woman Dead”
OZARK, Ala. (AP) – Animal control officer Wanda Snell knows what she saw: A veterinarian inserted a needle into the black-and-brown mutt and injected a chemical meant to euthanize the dog no one had adopted. The animal moved a bit and was still and quiet by the time she left the shelter for home.
What Snell can’t explain is how or why a mixed-breed dog that nobody wanted recovered overnight and has since bounced back fully from what should have been a lethal injection. Continue reading “Dog named ‘Lazarus’ survives euthanasia attempt”
Reinventing a business is often the key to its survival. Markets plummet. Prices go up. Demand goes down. Consumers change. Moving forward often means taking risks, venturing into the unknown and hoping that something, somewhere, will work out in the end.
For Leroy and Barb Shatto that need for reinvention came more than a dozen years ago when the dairy farm that had been in Barb’s family for generations faced an uncertain future. Continue reading “Shatto Milk Co.: Dairy Farm Finds the Formula for Success”
New York Daily News – by TINA MOORE, RICH SCHAPIRO
Sanford Rubenstein needs a lawyer.
The high-powered attorney has been accused of raping a woman at his Manhattan home following the Rev. Al Sharpton’s 60th birthday bash on Wednesday, the Daily News has learned.
The alleged incident, first reported at NYDailyNews.com, took place at Rubenstein’s swanky E. 64th St. apartment hours after Sharpton’s star-studded party at the Four Seasons restaurant in Manhattan, law enforcement sources told The News.
The alleged victim is a 42-year-old business executive and a “top official” at Sharpton’s National Action Network, according to sources and the civil rights advocacy group. Continue reading “Famed lawyer Sanford Rubenstein accused of sexually assaulting woman after Al Sharpton’s birthday bash”
One U.S. airman is dead and two others are feared drowned in Okinawa, Japan, after a group of servicemen were swept out to sea by high waves caused by Typhoon Phanfone.
The six servicemen at Kadena Air Base were taking photos of high waves on the northwest coast of the island when four overtaken by waves around 3:45 p.m. local time, according to Nago District Police in Okinawa. Continue reading “Typhoon Phanfone Slams Japan: One U.S. Airman Found Dead, Three Missing”
Business Insider – by JULIE STEENHUYSEN
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Nurses, the frontline care providers in U.S. hospitals, say they are untrained and unprepared to handle patients arriving in their hospital emergency departments infected with Ebola.
Many say they have gone to hospital managers, seeking training on how to best care for patients and protect themselves and their families from contracting the deadly disease, which has so far killed at least 3,338 people in the deadliest outbreak on record. Continue reading “US NURSES: We’re Not Prepared To Handle Ebola Patients”
ABC News – by JONATHAN LEMIRE and COLLEEN LONG, AP
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s relationship with police, already strained by accusations he sided with frequent NYPD critic Al Sharpton over the chokehold death of an unarmed suspect, suffered another hit with revelations a top aide is living with a convicted killer who has often mocked officers as “pigs.”
Police unions say it’s only the latest incident that shows the mayor’s lack of support for the 34,000-officer force. And even some de Blasio allies acknowledge the mayor could do a better job of leading the department he is simultaneously trying to reform. Continue reading “Unease Grows Between De Blasio and NYPD Officers”
New York Post – by Kathianne Boniello
A Madison Square Garden hot-dog seller claims in a lawsuit that she was fired after just two hours on the job because of alleged unpaid bills.
The 36-year-old single Brooklyn mom, identified by the initials J.D. in her Manhattan federal suit against MSG, says she was out of work for a year when she was offered a food-service supervisor’s job in October 2013 following a month long background check, according to court papers. Continue reading “Woman fired after two hours on the job at MSG: suit”
Bloomberg – by Kelly Gilblom and Harry R. Weber
At least one ill passenger was pulled off an airplane that arrived at New Jersey’s Newark Liberty International Airport from Brussels today by federal health officials and emergency responders, amid fears of Ebola spreading in the U.S.
Passengers on United Airlines flight 998 were kept in their seats for almost two hours as quarantine officers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention removed the sick person from the plane, according to statements by the CDC and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Continue reading “Vomiting Man Removed From Flight in Newark on Ebola Fear”
The Times Tribune – by TERRIE MORGAN-BESECKER
Suspected gunman Eric Matthew Frein texted a friend “all is good” just hours before police say he ambushed two troopers outside the Blooming Grove barracks, according to a search warrant affidavit.
“I stayed at your place last night,” read the text received by Mr. Frein’s longtime friend, Justin Smith. “I met your aunt. She was showing upstairs to someone.”
The message, received at around 6:15 p.m. on Sept. 12, went on to say Mr. Frein was “heading back to Delaware” and that he would be back next week. Continue reading “Frein texted friend “all is good” hours before ambush”
Dallas News – by Scott Farwell
Despite assurances that the wealth and medical infrastructure of the United States would stop the Ebola virus in its tracks, public health officials still struggled Friday to complete basic cleanup at an apartment where the contagious man lived with four others.
A hazardous materials crew dressed head to toe in yellow rubberized suits, masks and green gloves lumbered into apartment 614 just after noon, as a mother, her child, and two young adults watched anxiously. Continue reading “Family exposed to Ebola patient is moved while cleanup continues”
New York Times – by MANNY FERNANDEZ
DALLAS — There is a little Ethiopian cafe here on Park Lane, down the street from where the man city officials call Patient Zero was staying. I walked in and asked the workers standing behind the counter if they knew anything about the patient, Thomas E. Duncan, a Liberian citizen who was the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States. Next to the cash register was a bottle of hand sanitizer.
They did not know him. But they called over a customer. The customer, a middle-aged woman, walked over. I don’t think she heard my question, but she heard one word within it: “Ebola.” With a worried look on her face, she stretched her arm in front of me, pumped the sanitizer a couple times and rubbed it on her hands. Continue reading “Ebola, Fear and a Changing Texas”
Opposing Views – by Michael Allen
Angela Brown was charged with child endangerment and permitting a child to be present when possessing a controlled substance back on June 19.
Brown was giving her 15-year-old son Trey cannabis oil to treat his pain and seizures, which are due to a brain injury from 2011.
The Browns say an ER doctor suggested the Madison, Minn., family try medical marijuana, so they went to Boulder, Colo., and brought back some cannabis oil (video below). Continue reading “Mom Going to Trial for Treating Son with Seizures with Medical Marijuana”
Surviving primarily on cans of tuna fish and ramen noodles, suspected police shooter Eric Frein is believed to remain in a swath of rugged woodland near his parents’ Monroe County home, state police said Friday.
Nearly three weeks after Frein is alleged to have fatally shot state police Cpl. Bryon Dickson II and seriously wounded Trooper Alex Douglass in an ambush outside their barracks, investigators continue to find items that make them believe Frein is hiding in the woods. Continue reading “State police say Eric Frein is living on tuna and ramen”
In light of the first case of Ebola in the United States emerging earlier this week after Thomas Duncan traveled to and from the country of Liberia to attend a funeral (and then knowing he was infected, lied on a medical form before hopping on a flight back), many people are asking why flight bans or restrictions to Ebola stricken countries have not been put in place.
On Wednesday, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest essentially argued that because America has the ability to treat the disease, that it is unnecessary to implement travel restrictions in order to prevent it from coming here. Continue reading “CDC Director Doubles Down on Lack of Flight Restrictions From Ebola Stricken Countries”
NPR – by SCOTT NEUMAN
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AOL – by Jay Reeves
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Town Hall – by Katie Pavlich