By the time Craig Spencer was checking his temperature twice a day, President Trump had already spent the summer railing against bringing home American aid workers who contracted ebola in west Africa.

“People that go to far away places to help out are great — but must suffer the consequences!” Trump wrote at height of the last outbreak 12 years ago. “Stop the EBOLA patients from entering the U.S. Treat them, at the highest level, over there. THE UNITED STATES HAS ENOUGH PROBLEMS!”

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By the time African health officials confirmed the world’s latest Ebola outbreak, the epidemic had already spilled from the Democratic Republic of the Congo into neighboring Uganda. Within two days, the World Health Organization declared the outbreak a public-health emergency of international concern. Less than two weeks later, the potential case count has risen past 1,000, including more than 230 deaths, and 10 other African countries have been designated at risk of being swept into the crisis.

When Craig Spencer contracted Ebola while working in Guinea during the West African outbreak in 2014, he was already back in the United States when he first developed symptoms. He credits the treatment he got at New York’s Bellevue Hospital for his survival.

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The Trump administration is building a quarantine and treatment center in Kenya for Americans affected by the Ebola outbreak, instead of bringing them home.

The White House on Wednesday confirmed that the US was setting up a facility in Kenya for Americans to quarantine after Ebola exposure in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

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The deadly Ebola outbreak is spreading rapidly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Public health researcher and Ebola survivor Dr. Craig Spencer joins Meet the Press NOW to discuss the need for urgent international action for what could become the deadliest Ebola outbreak ever.
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A new drug candidate could help treat measles, croup and other related viral diseases that cause contagious and life-threatening respiratory infections, Georgia State University researchers say.

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In past outbreaks, Americans exposed to the virus were sent home to be treated in state-of-the-art facilities. The Trump administration has already flown some U.S. citizens to Europe for treatment.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been left "decimated" by various policy changes over the last year, weakening its ability to respond to a growing Ebola outbreak, experts have told Newsweek.

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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WJAR) — Less than three weeks from the first FIFA World Cup match, public health experts say they are on high alert for outbreaks of infectious diseases.

"When you are bringing potentially 5 to 7 million fans from over 100 different countries together, the chances that you bring new diseases that are not typically present in the U.S. into the U.S. does increase," Brown University associate professor of epidemiology Dr. William Goedel told NBC 10 in an interview.

When Georgia Lagoudas testified in front of the Rhode Island State legislature, lawmakers in the packed, poorly ventilated room were restless and unfocused.

The room had already exceeded near-toxic carbon dioxide levels set by the US federal occupational health agency. At 6,000 CO2 parts per million, breathing air can lead to fatigue, headaches, reduced cognitive function, and nausea.

Two deadly outbreaks that could threaten Americans are unfolding simultaneously—Ebola in one part of the world, hantavirus in another—with mortality rates of 25 to 50 percent and 38 percent, respectively, and no approved vaccines or treatments for either. For now, what are most alarming are not the outbreaks themselves but the slow and uncoordinated responses by the institutions that Americans rely on to keep them safe, including the U.S. government and the World Health Organization. If the world cannot properly handle known threats that it has contained before, then it is dangerously unprepared for the next novel one.

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Jeffery Taubenberger, an influenza researcher named last year as acting director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), has “stepped down from his position,” Senator Tammy Baldwin (D–WI) revealed at a Senate hearing today on the budget for its parent institution, the National Institutes of Health (NIH).