U.N. health worker flown to France for Ebola treatment

PARIS (Reuters) - A United Nations health worker suffering from Ebola has been flown to France from Sierra Leone for treatment, the French health ministry said in a statement overnight. The UN worker, whose name and nationality have not been disclosed, was transported to France aboard a specially equipped jet and placed in isolation at the Begin military hospital in the eastern Paris suburb of Saint-Mandé, the statement said. The UN worker is the second Ebola sufferer to have received treatment in France since the start of the epidemic ravaging West Africa. ...



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France takes in UN worker with Ebola

PARIS (AP) — France's government says it has taken in a U.N. employee infected with Ebola in Sierra Leone for treatment.



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Legacy of SARS in Asia offers lessons for Ebola fight

The SARS outbreak of 2003 put Hong Kong on the frontline of a global health crisis -- but the city's ultimately successful war on the virus offers lessons for those now battling Ebola. The flu-like Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome infected 1,800 people and took 299 lives in the southern Chinese city. Eleven years later, the legacy of SARS can still be seen every day in Hong Kong. "All this came about after SARS," said Nelson Lee, head of infectious diseases at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

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Trouble brewing in South Korea's plastic surgery paradise

While waiting in a hair salon, she saw a magazine advertisement for a plastic surgery clinic and decided to go for it, despite her family's objections. In South Korea, where physical perfection is seen as a way to improve the quality of life, including job and marriage prospects, plastic surgery procedures can seem as commonplace as haircuts. Only later did Kim find out her doctor was not a plastic surgery specialist. It is more revolting than monsters or aliens." A record from the Seoul central district court shows that Kim's doctor faces a pending criminal case on charges of violating medical law.



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Freezing eggs to halt the biological clock

She is 44 and single, but journalist Sarah still dreams of having a child, while TV producer Susanah, 38, is waiting for her younger boyfriend to be ready. To keep their hopes alive, these New York women have spent tens of thousands of dollars on freezing their eggs in a practice that has become increasingly popular. Facebook recently began covering costs of egg freezing for employees and Apple will do the same starting in January. Sarah Elizabeth Richards was one of the first to take advantage of the technique, which the American Society for Reproductive Medicine considered experimental until 2012.

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Days after waving to U.S. envoy, Liberian boys are Ebola free

By Michelle Nichols NEW YORK (Reuters) - Just a few days after Solomon, 14, and Joe, 11, stood in t-shirts and pyjama pants waving as U.S. envoy Samantha Power visited an Ebola treatment unit in Liberia, their recovery was complete -- they tested negative for the hemorrhagic fever. "Solomon and Joe went home," said U.S. nurse Bridget Mulrooney on Saturday, who works with the unit run by International Medical Corps in Bong County, about 200 km (120 miles) east of Liberia's capital Monrovia. Power, accompanied by U.S. ...

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Spanish woman cured of Ebola moves to normal room

MADRID (AP) — Hospital officials say a Spanish nursing assistant who recovered from an Ebola virus infection has left the isolation unit where she was being monitored and moved to a normal room.



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