For the first time, a patient infected with Andes hantavirus is being treated inside the Nebraska Biocontainment Unit, a facility at the University of Nebraska Medical Center that was purpose-built to handle Ebola and other high-consequence pathogens.

As of Wednesday, public health officials were monitoring 16 of the patients in the Quarantine Unit, including one who had previously tested positive. Two others traveled on to another biocontainment unit in Atlanta.

A Cuban doctor who received experimental treatment for Ebola in a Geneva hospital has made a full recovery and left Switzerland to be reunited with his family, the hospital said on Saturday. Felix Baez,

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . As of Sept. 28, there have been 64 cases and 42 deaths associated with the outbreak. Women account for more than 57% of cases and deaths. Transmission has slowed in the ...

Nebraska Medicine and the University of Nebraska Medical Center have a history of treating patients in past global disease outbreaks.

A patient who was admitted to Toronto's Sunnybrook hospital with symptoms consistent with the Ebola virus has tested negative for the disease. The patient had recently returned from West Africa and was admitted to the Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre in Barrie Saturday morning.