After 17 cases were identified Nov. 6-7, the Directorate-General for Health of Portugal reported a total of 302 cases of the disease on Nov. 12.
Its safety advisory notice says material contaminated or suspected of being contaminated with Ebola is regulated as a Category A infectious substance under the Hazardous Materials Regulations.
The program will include programmed health inspections at funeral homes, chemical and product manufacturing plants, printing facilities, and outpatient care centers.
The equipment is Ebola-specific and is based on guidance CDC issued on Oct. 20.
The costs rose between 2002 and 2011 five times faster than the cost of treating other types of cancers, according to the agency's new study.
Bloodless medicine is an approach that includes performing minimally invasive procedures or saving a patient's own blood and using it during surgery by reinfusion.
WHO reported 12 more cases of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection, along with three more deaths, that were confirmed between Oct. 27 and Oct. 30.
The vaccine is named Trumenba.
The free, web-based program will train health care providers on proper donning of PPE, safe removal of gear, and active monitoring skills.
Five societies joined in issuing guidance to personnel and health care organizations for how to handle these wastes, including waste contaminated with the Ebola virus.
A new study examined the potential risks from using e-cigarettes indoors.
At least two companies announced they are sending supplies to West Africa or making online training programs available free for U.S. health care workers, and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen raised his commitment to "at least $100 million."
WHO's Global Tuberculosis Report 2014 shows 9 million people developed tuberculosis in 2013 and 1.5 million died.
A statement from the National Safety Council is directed toward health care employers whose workers have a risk of exposure.
The progress comes despite pressure from the tobacco industry, according to WHO Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan.
"We are committed to maintaining a strong collaborative effort to address this public health threat," the American Medical Association, American Hospital Association, and American Nurses Association say in an Oct. 16 joint statement.
The organization represents more than 300,000 full-time firefighters and paramedics in the United States and Canada.
She had flown to Dallas from Cleveland on Oct. 13, and CDC is asking all 132 passengers on that flight to get in touch so they can be interviewed.
President Obama was briefed Sunday by HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell and ordered federal authorities to take immediate additional steps to ensure hospitals and health care providers nationwide are prepared to follow protocols should they encounter an Ebola patient.
The first is an online memorial to the estimated 20 million Americans who have died from smoking or secondhand smoke since the first Surgeon General's report on smoking and health 50 years ago.