| CNN.com delivers up-to-the-minute news and information on the latest top stories, weather, entertainment, politics and more. | American doctor infected with Ebola | | An American doctor trying to quell the Ebola outbreak in Liberia has been infected with the virus, an aid organization said. The 33-year-old doctor noticed the symptoms last week and isolated himself. |
| Gaza-Israel crisis | | Israel said Sunday it is resuming its offensive in Gaza after Hamas rejected the extension of a humanitarian cease-fire and fired rockets over the border. |
| Ebola | | | An American doctor trying to quell the Ebola outbreak in Liberia is now infected with the virus, the organization for which he works said. |
| Why epidemic is spinning out of control | | The Ebola epidemic now raging across three countries in West Africa is three-fold larger than any other outbreak ever recorded for this terrible disease; the only one to have occurred in urban areas and to cross national borders; and officially urgent and serious. At least 1,090 people have contracted the awful disease this year, though the epidemic's true scope is unknown because of widespread opposition to health authorities in afflicted Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. |
| What you need to know | | It began with a just a handful of cases in Guinea in March. But it spread quickly to two other countries and is now the deadliest outbreak of Ebola virus on record. |
| Is it time to test experimental vaccines? | | Ebola virus disease is sweeping across West Africa in the largest outbreak of the virus to date. Mortality rates are currently at 60% in a disease where up to 90% of infected people can die. But despite this lethality there remain no licensed treatments or vaccines available, nearly 40 years after the disease was first discovered. |
| American doctor infected with Ebola | | | An American doctor trying to quell the Ebola outbreak in Liberia is now infected with the virus, an aid organization said. The 33-year-old doctor noticed the symptoms last week and isolated himself. |
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