BigRedMachine wrote US health officials are seeking 132 people who flew on a plane with a Texas nurse on the day before she came down with symptoms of Ebola.

The nurse, the second person to catch Ebola in the US, became ill on Tuesday.

Both she and nurse Nina Pham, 26, had treated Liberian Thomas Eric Duncan, who died on 8 October, in Dallas.

Meanwhile, the UN's Ebola mission chief says the world is falling behind in the race to contain the virus, which has killed more than 4,000 in West Africa.

On Wednesday, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said it wanted to interview the passengers on Frontier Airlines flight 1143 from Cleveland, Ohio, to Dallas, Texas on 13 October.

It said it was taking the measure "because of the proximity in time between the evening flight and first report of illness the following morning".

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On a side not, even though death numbers outside of west Africa are extremely low, i am surprised these people, especially the one in texas have died, considering the british man who contracted ebola and was flown back to a UK hospital was cured in around 6 or 7 days.

Im a little bummed because she actually graduated the high school i go to, and also her cousin is in one of my classes so its a little scary for us.

Why not just treat people with Ebola where they contracted it, instead of dragging them along here?

BankaiChamploo wrote Why not just treat people with Ebola where they contracted it, instead of dragging them along here?

Because a person that has it won't show symptoms for 21 days so authorities can't do much other than block all flights to and from infected areas.

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BankaiChamploo wrote Why not just treat people with Ebola where they contracted it, instead of dragging them along here?

Because a person that has it won't show symptoms for 21 days so authorities can't do much other than block all flights to and from infected areas.

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Well the people going off need to just sit down and think about what their doing for 21 days!

Nice post I was just about to research it

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Nigeria has been declared officially free of Ebola after six weeks with no new cases, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.

WHO representative Rui Gama Vaz, speaking in the capital Abuja, said it was a "spectacular success story".

Nigeria won praise for its swift response after a Liberian diplomat brought the disease there in July.

The outbreak has killed more than 4,500 people in West Africa, mostly in Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone.

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This is great news!

Atleast thats one African country that doesn't have it and is actually a really good thing.

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Lavish wrote

Nigeria has been declared officially free of Ebola after six weeks with no new cases, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.

WHO representative Rui Gama Vaz, speaking in the capital Abuja, said it was a "spectacular success story".

Nigeria won praise for its swift response after a Liberian diplomat brought the disease there in July.

The outbreak has killed more than 4,500 people in West Africa, mostly in Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone.

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This is great news!

Atleast thats one African country that doesn't have it and is actually a really good thing.

Most countries in Africa don't have it. Only the select few on the west coast. Nigeria is also probably the most advanced out of the few and they were stuck at 20 cases for the longest time. Every time I changed the total case count when the CDC would update it, Nigeria stayed at 20. Fantastic news though. One down, a few more to go.

To be honest, I'm not really worried about Ebola spreading in developed countries, like Canada, the US, the UK, etc. Those countries have the infrastructure and resources to fight back Ebola successfully. They were even able to get rid of Ebola in Nigeria, which is much more technologically advanced than other countries within the region.

As it stands, much more people are killed through the common cold than Ebola, and hopefully it remains like that until they find a cure. And it might, in developed countries. But in countries like Liberia and Sierra Leone, where thousands of people are dying, it's scary to think how many more people can die there, especially when they don't have the resources to fight against it effectively.

FOURTH CASE IN THE US
New York City doctor is now infected by this horrific virus.

NEW YORK (AP) An emergency room doctor who recently returned to the city after treating Ebola patients in West Africa has tested positive for the virus, becoming the first case in the city and the fourth in the nation.

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