CDC Ebola Training Center opens in Anniston
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention launched a training program for health workers headed for West Africa to help with the Ebola outbreak. They’re running it at a former Army base in Anniston.
Listen to the story from NPR’s Global Health and Development correspondent, Nurith Aizenman as heard on Morning Edition.
Meanwhile, Alabama is taking steps to prevent Ebola infections.
Governor Bentley and state health officer Dr. Don Williamson say Alabama has taken steps to make sure health care workers are able to identify a case of Ebola quickly and take precautions to make sure others don’t become ill.
Williamson said the mostly likely way Ebola might show up in Alabama is from someone who traveled to west Africa and developed flu-like symptoms after returning home. Williamson says there is nothing Alabama can do to prevent a case like that, but the state is working to make sure others aren’t infected.
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Appeals court allows end of protected status for migrants from 3 countries
A federal appeals court on Wednesday sided with the Trump administration and halted for now a lower court's order that had kept in place temporary protections for 60,000 migrants from Central America and Nepal.
Brazilian police say ex-President Bolsonaro had planned to flee to Argentina
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Massacres in eastern Congo cast doubt on U.S. mediated peace deal
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One civilian injured in crash with D.C. National Guard military vehicle
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Trump vows to expand his review of U.S. museums. Can he do that?
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Dependent on foreign sales, U.S. wheat farmers hoping longtime partners stick with them
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