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national lead
Ebola patient gets experimental drug, but too soon to say how he's responding, say doctors
(CNN) – An American photographer being treated for Ebola in Nebraska has been given an experimental drug.
Ashoka Mukpo was in Liberia working with an NBC news crew when he was diagnosed with the disease. He was flown to the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, which has a biocontainment unit and had previously treated another American patient who eventually made a full recovery.
Dr. Angela Hewitt, who is treating Mukpo, says it is "too early to say" how he is responding to the experimental drug.
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world lead
Doctor: Aid groups having difficulty recruiting workers to fight Ebola
(CNN) – The organization Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) reports that a Norwegian staff member has contracted Ebola. The staffer had been working in Sierra Leone and was placed in isolation Sunday after developing a fever, the organization said.
The news comes as aid groups face growing difficulties recruiting workers to fight the deadly Ebola outbreak.
"The resistance you get is not just personal fear, but also my mother wouldn't want me to go, my son wouldn't want me to go, my family wouldn't want me to go, so on. And so you have a big resistance to people leaving," said Dr. Alexander van Tulleken, an infectious disease expert and professor at Fordham University.
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world lead
Spain ramps up Ebola response in wake of first Western incident
Madrid (CNN) - Spanish health authorities said Tuesday they are monitoring three more potential cases of Ebola, a day after a nurse's assistant became the first person known to have contracted Ebola outside Africa in the current outbreak.
The woman helped treat two Spanish missionaries, both of whom had contracted Ebola in West Africa, one in Liberia and the other in Sierra Leone. Both died after returning to Spain.
politics lead
Tough road for Democrats to keep the Senate
(CNN) – The 2014 midterms are less than one month away, and the negative TV ads are starting to loop and draw blood.
An analysis by the Wesleyan Media Project of Senate ads finds 55% of all those ads watched on TV are aiming below the belt.
Including six new ads from Democrats rolled out over the last week.
Democrats have been more eager than republicans to open up the opposition research file and use the airwaves to attack their opponents, according to the Wesleyan study.
But the map and the math nonetheless suggest President Obama's party still might need a miracle to avoid losing control of the Senate.
CNN's John King breaks it down in the video above.
national lead
Latest on Dallas Ebola patient
(CNN) – Of the nearly 50 people in Dallas being monitored for Ebola. none shows any signs of the disease according to CDC director Dr. Tom Frieden.
Those under observation all came into contact with Thomas Duncan, a Liberian national in a Dallas hospital, who last week became the first person diagnosed with the virus on U.S. soil.
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