A freak accident in central Sierra Leone left multiple Ebola patients in critical condition and countless more exposed to the virus as an ambulance heading toward a hospital “capsized” over a bridge in tiny Ngumahun Village. Reports of the incident are
They tried to feed him, give him water, and even take him to a mosque to prove that they were not infidels, but an ISIS jihadist captured in the Syrian border town of Kobani insisted his Kurdish captors kill him
Sheikh Nimr Baqir al-Nimr, a Shia cleric known in Saudi Arabia for being outspoken during a wave of anti-government protests in 2011, has been sentenced to death for “sedition,” with the government alleging that he incited listeners to overthrow the
A woman known as “Rehana” has become a hero across the internet as news spread that the Kobani soldier has reportedly killed more than 100 Islamic State terrorists single-handedly. Rehana became famous in Kurdish Twitter circles after a photo of
Javier Limón, husband of Spanish nurse Teresa Romero, has released a message of thanks to all who are supporting her as she struggles to survive Ebola. He encouraged them to use their outrage at the Spanish healthcare system to call
While the Ebola outbreak in west Africa has been nothing short of devastating for affected nations, at least one country has been able to exploit the crisis to garner goodwill: Cuba, whose communist government has vowed to send hundreds of
The news that health workers fighting against the Ebola outbreak in Liberia are threatening to strike over long hours and unsanitary conditions should come as no surprise, given the high toll the healthcare community has had to pay for this
Teresa Romero, the auxiliary nurse in Madrid who contracted Ebola from a patient brought in from Sierra Leone, and her husband, may sue Madrid Sanitation Councilman Javier Rodríguez after the latter hinted that Romero “hid information” about how she contracted
The Netherlands has legalized the alliance between Dutch citizens and foreign military forces in the theater of war, so long as said foreign forces are not fighting against the Netherlands. The new law is a response to demands from a
The stories of India’s child laborers, often abducted from their parents and taken hundreds of miles away to work in brutal conditions, rarely have happy endings. But a father’s quest to find his three children in the northern state of
The reports from inside Kobane, the Syrian border town considered a potential watershed capture for the terrorist group the Islamic State, are ever more dire as American-led airstrikes appear to do little to stop the massacre of Kurds in a
In a scathing letter calling for the resignation of Madrid’s regional health chief Javier Rodríguez, the husband of a nurse auxiliary who contracted Ebola from a patient in Spain asserts that his wife received only half an hour of training
26-year-old nurse Nina Pham was among the first staffers at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital to treat Liberian Thomas Eric Duncan, the first confirmed Ebola case on US soil. Pham has been identified as the second confirmed case of the virus
The staff working at Carlos III Hospital in Madrid are extremely unsatisfied with the government’s handling of the spread of the Ebola virus from a patient to an auxiliary nurse. At a public event yesterday, staff were seen yelling “go
A 47-year-old man has been hospitalized in Brazil and quarantined, suspected of having brought the Ebola virus from Guinea into South America. He is the first suspected case of the Ebola virus surfacing on the continent. According to the Wall
A man on board a flight from Philadelphia to Punta Cana, Dominican Republic yelled “I have Ebola!” shortly before the plane landed. While authorities determined that the exclamation was a “joke in poor taste,” medical personnel in full protective gear
Liberians following the arrival of Ebola patient Thomas Duncan to the United States and his subsequent death tell the nation’s largest newspaper that they fully expected him to die in America because he was Liberian, comparing his death to the
A national security expert tells Forbes magazine that the Ebola threat could be potentially multiplied should the virus fall into the hands of a terrorist organization like the Islamic State (ISIS). Sending ISIS terrorists to West Africa to bring back toxic
A recently released Pew Center survey found Americans extraordinarily disengaged from news surrounding the 2014 midterm elections. While the poll results are notable, what is capturing Americans’ attention may be even more telling: the Ebola virus, and not the threat of
The doctor who treated Spanish Ebola patient Teresa Romero during the time she had not yet been confirmed to be carrying Ebola sent a scathing internal letter to superiors at his hospital, alleging that he only found out about her
President Xi Jinping of China has announced a campaign to eliminate unnecessary bureaucracy and streamline the Communist Party of China, a plan called “mass line” that requires strict adherence to party philosophy to “prioritize the interests of the people.” According
Supporters of the jihadist terror group the Islamic State (ISIS) have begun to circulate photos of a ten-year-old boy known only as Abu Ubaidah, reportedly killed alongside his father while fighting on behalf of the terrorist organization. According to the
A global health professor at Georgetown University expressed concern this week that new measures announced to keep Ebola out of the United States are merely a response to “political outcry” meant to make the public believe the government is working
A North Korean diplomat speaking before reporters insisted that North Korea does not have prisons or “things like that,” but confirmed publicly for the first time the existence of “re-education through labor” camps in the isolated communist nation. The Associated
UPDATE: Madrid authorities have confirmed the dog has been euthanized. Excalibur is a 12-year-old rescue dog who currently resides in an apartment in Madrid. His owner, María Teresa Romero Ramos, is the first person known to have contracted Ebola outside of
