Ebola in Dallas

SALISBURY, N.C. (AP) -- Thomas Eric Duncan was remembered Saturday as a big-hearted and compassionate man whose virtues may have led to his infection with Ebola in his native Liberia and subsequent death as the first victim of the disease in the United States.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House is conceding there were shortcomings in the response to an Ebola patient's care in Texas that has now resulted in two health care workers testing positive for the disease.

NEW YORK (AP) -- A top federal health official said Wednesday that a Texas nurse exposed to the Ebola virus never should have taken a flight from Cleveland to the Dallas area. She has now been diagnosed with Ebola and officials are now contacting other passengers on the plane.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Ebola has arrived in the United States and people are frightened.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A North Carolina drugmaker is providing its experimental antiviral drug to a Dallas patient being treated for Ebola, an emergency step authorized by the Food and Drug Administration.

DALLAS (AP) -- The condition of the lone Ebola patient to be diagnosed in the U.S. has worsened and is now deemed critical, the Dallas hospital that has been treating him reported Saturday.

DALLAS (AP) -- His week began thousands of miles away with a frantic bid to save a life.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration on Friday urged calm over the single case of Ebola in the United States, seeking to reassure the American public that there is little chance of an outbreak of the illness in this country. The Pentagon said it had begun the long-awaited aid to disease-ravaged Liberia, with medical testing at two new labs and construction of treatment centers.

DALLAS (AP) -- A hazardous materials crew has arrived at the Dallas apartment where the U.S. Ebola patient stayed to collect bed sheets and towels used by the infected man before he was hospitalized.

DALLAS (AP) -- A woman who has been confined to her Dallas apartment under armed guard after a man infected with Ebola stayed at her home, said she never imagined this could happen to her so far from disease-ravaged West Africa.