Ebola in the U.S.
Signs regarding the ebola outbreak and treatment are posted at the entrance to Bellvue Hospital, where a 5-year-old was brought early Monday morning after showing Ebola-like symptoms, after recently returning from West Africa, Oct. 27, 2014, in New York City.
Bellvue Hospital is also treating Dr. Craig Spencer, a doctor who has the Ebola virus after working in West Africa. Spencer is being held in an isolation ward, it is unclear if the 5-year-old has Ebola at this time.
New York
Zuru Pewu holds her 4-year-old son Micah inside a home in the Staten Island borough of New York, Oct. 23, 2014.
Pewu, 29, who emigrated from Liberia in 2005, and her son Micah recently underwent an experience where they were insulted and linked to the spread of the Ebola virus.
Pewu's experience points to an alarming trend. While many Americans have reached out to help, African communities in the U.S. are reporting an increasing number of incidents of ostracism.
New York
NYPD officers ask a man wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) as a Halloween costume, to move away from the area near the building where Dr. Craig Spencer lives in New York, Oct. 25, 2014.
Spencer, 33, who treated Ebola patients in West Africa, was moved with elaborate precautions from his Harlem apartment to Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan with a fever and tested positive for Ebola on Thursday, sparking concern about the spread of the disease in the country's most populous city.
New York
Dr. Jay Varma, Deputy Commissioner of Health for New York City, gives a news conference after Morgan Dixon (not pictured), fiancee of Dr. Craig Spencer, arrived home in New York, Oct. 25, 2014.
Dixon has undergone a medical examination and will now self-quarantine in her apartment for 21 days.
Spencer spent a month treating Ebola patients in Guinea with the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders, returned to the United States on Oct. 17 and was diagnosed with the virus on Thursday, health officials said.
New York
A Liberian flag is seen in the foreground of a sign-in table for "A Staten Island Ebola Summit" held by the African Ebola Crisis Committee at Berta A. Dreyfus Intermediate School 49 in the Staten Island borough of New York, Oct. 25, 2014.
Despite many different speakers from city agencies and community leadership groups, turnout was less than what organizers had expected.
Washington, D.C.
U.S. President Barack Obama smiles with Dallas nurse Nina Pham at the Oval Office in Washington, D.C., Oct. 24, 2014.
Obama met Pham in the Oval Office shortly after her release from a nearby hospital after recovering from the virus.
Pham, who contracted the disease while treating a man who later died of Ebola in a Dallas hospital, had been undergoing treatment at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, since Oct. 16.
New York
Members of a cleaning crew with "Bio Recovery Corporation" carry equipment into the building where Dr. Craig Spencer lives in New York, Oct. 24, 2014.
Spencer, 33, who treated Ebola patients in West Africa, was moved with elaborate precautions from his Harlem apartment to Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan with a fever and tested positive for Ebola on Thursday, sparking concern about the spread of the disease in the country's most populous city.
Washington, D.C.
Jeff Hulbert of Annapolis, Maryland, holds up a sign in front of the White House in Washington, D.C., Oct. 24, 2014.
Hulbert is protesting for a mandatory quarantine for people that have returned from Ebola affected countries.
New York
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio (table, C) and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (table, 2nd R) attend a news conference in Bellevue Hospital in New York, Oct. 23, 2014.
A physician with Doctors Without Borders (MSF) who returned to New York City after treating Ebola victims in West Africa tested positive for the virus, setting off fresh fears about the spread of the disease.
Dr. Craig Spencer, 33, is in isolation at Bellevue Hospital.
Dallas
Staff members of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital gather outside the emergency room to show support for fellow nurse Nina Pham, in Dallas, Texas Oct. 16, 2014.
Pham left the Dallas hospital where she was receiving treatment for the Ebola virus and being transferred by air to a National Institutes of Health Facility in Bethesda, Maryland.
Anniston, Alabama
Students wearing personal protective equipment participate in a CDC training session for healthcare workers treating Ebola virus victims, in Anniston, Alabama, Oct. 15, 2014.
The training session, at a Federal Emergency Management Agency site, comes as a second hospital worker contracted Ebola after treating a stricken patient at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas.
The classes, meant for healthcare workers going to West Africa, may be expanded to include domestic workers, according to a CDC spokesman.
Dallas
A private security officer checks the ID of a passerby at the Village Apartment complex where a second Texas nurse who tested positive for Ebola resides in Dallas, Texas, Oct. 15, 2014.
Amber Vinson, 29, was isolated immediately after reporting a fever on Tuesday, Texas Department of State Health Services officials said.
Washington, D.C.
President Obama speaks with members of his cabinet about the fight against the Ebola virus during a meeting at the White House, Oct. 15, 2014.
Obama canceled a campaign trip in order to meet with Cabinet officials about the Ebola outbreak.
Anniston, Alabama
Students wearing personal protective equipment participate in a CDC training session facility for healthcare workers treating Ebola virus victims, in Anniston, Alabama, Oct. 15, 2014.
Atlanta
An ambulance transporting Amber Joy Vinson, a U.S. nurse who has Ebola, arrives at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, Oct. 15, 2014.
Amber Vinson, the second Texas nurse who had contracted Ebola, was sent to Emory on Wednesday after being transferred from Texas Presbyterian Hospital.
She had treated Liberian patient Thomas Eric Duncan, who died of Ebola and was the first patient diagnosed with the virus in the United States.
Atlanta
Texas nurse Amber Vinson (L) steps from an ambulance at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, Oct. 15, 2014.
Dallas
Members of the Protect HazMat team prepare to clear the contents of the apartment of nurse, Nina Pham, 26, who was infected with the Ebola virus at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, Texas Oct. 13, 2014.
A second worker at the Texas hospital where a Liberian man died of Ebola has tested positive for the disease, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said early Wednesday morning.
The revelation has raised alarms about further spread of the disease, which is transmitted through body fluids such as blood and saliva after the victim starts showing symptoms.
Cleveland
A Frontier Airlines employee wears gloves as she directs passengers where to go at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, Oct. 15, 2014, in Cleveland.
Ohio health officials aren't sure how many people came into contact with a Texas nurse as she visited family in the Akron area days before being diagnosed with Ebola in Dallas.
The Ohio Department of Health says she visited family from Oct. 8-13 and flew Monday from Cleveland to Dallas.
Dallas
Dallas Animal Services and Adoption Center photo shows Bentley, the dog belonging to the nurse who contracted Ebola, being transported in Dallas, Oct. 14, 2014.
The nurse, Nina Pham, became the first person infected by Ebola in the United States while caring for Thomas Eric Duncan for much of his 11 days at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas. He died on Oct. 8.
Dallas
Stephanie Wright and Erin Taylor, members of the Sigma Kappa sorority, speak to the media following a prayer vigil on the campus of TCU for health care worker Nina Pham, who contracted the Ebola virus on Oct. 14, 2014 in Dallas, Texas.
The Texas Heath Presbyterian Hospital nurse contracted the virus while treating patient Thomas Eric Duncan, who has since died.
Salt Lake City
Amanda Smith, a graduate student from the University of Utah, works in a sealed lab on a non-infective version of the Ebola virus to help discover a drug that is effective against a part of Ebola that is vulnerable to drugs, Oct. 14, 2014, in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Dr. Michael Kay says this breakthrough, if proven to be effective, won't help the current outbreak of Ebola but they hope it will be able to prevent another one in coming years.
New York
U.N. Ebola mission chief Anthony Banbury (on screen) speaks to members of the United Nations Security Council during a meeting on the Ebola crisis at the U.N. headquarters in New York , New York, Oct. 14, 2014.
Salt Lake City
Petri dishes grow bacteria to help determine drug candidates for testing new drugs against a part of the Ebola virus that is vulnerable to drugs, at the University of Utah, in Salt Lake City, Oct. 14, 2014.
Dallas
A man dressed in protective hazmat clothing leaves after treating the front porch and sidewalk of an apartment where nurse Nina Pham, diagnosed with the Ebola virus, resides in Dallas, Texas, Oct. 12, 2014.
Dallas
A man dressed in protective hazmat clothing leaves after treating the front porch and sidewalk of an apartment where the second person diagnosed with the Ebola virus resides in Dallas, Texas, Oct. 12, 2014.
Dallas
Nowai Korkoyah, the mother of Thomas Eric Duncan, the first patient diagnosed with Ebola on U.S. soil, attends a news conference with Reverend Jesse Jackson (R) in Dallas, Texas Oct. 7, 2014.
Los Angeles
An airport worker wears a protective face mask in the arrivals area of the Los Angeles International Airport as the U.S. announced increased passenger screenings against the Ebola Virus, Oct. 9, 2014.
Boston
A man collects and bags items behind the ambulance used to transport a patient with possible Ebola symptoms to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts, Oct. 12, 2014.
Boston
A man collects and bags items behind the ambulance used to transport a patient with possible Ebola symptoms to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts, Oct. 12, 2014.
Dallas
Dallas police officers put up tape to restrict entrance to the residence of a health worker at the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital who has contracted Ebola in Dallas, Texas, Oct. 12, 2014.
Dallas
A member of the CG Environmental HazMat team disinfects the entrance to the residence of a health worker at the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital who has contracted Ebola in Dallas, Texas, Oct. 12, 2014.
Dallas
A worker in a hazardous material suit removes the contents of the apartment unit where Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person to develop Ebola in the United States, man diagnosed with the Ebola virus, was staying in Dallas, Texas, Oct. 6, 2014.