The US-Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan (42) is dead. This reported the treating hospital in Dallas (Texas, USA)! In a statement by the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, it was said that the man had died Wednesday morning at 7:51 clock (local time). He was the first patient, diagnosed with Ebola in the United States. The health of Duncan deteriorated drastically. He was treated with an experimental drug called “Brincidofovir.” The system developed by the U.S. pharmaceutical company Chimerix Antiviral preparation is used among other things to combat herpes and smallpox. Es was the first time that the drug was tested on Ebola patients. On Monday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave their OK.

Duncan traveled on September 20, from Liberia to Dallas. Four days after his arrival he joined the first symptoms of the deadly viral disease showed up.

USA toughen controls. 
According to a CNN TV report, there is a growing ‘angst’ in the United States to get infected with Ebola. The controls for passengers from Ebola areas would be intensified the station reported, quoting a U.S. government speaker. For travelers who come from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea to the United States, the body temperature will be measured with a hand scanner in the future. In addition, the traveler would have to answer specific questions. The measure starts this weekend or early next week. There are more than 3400 Ebola deaths were counted. The disease is rampant, especially in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. However, even in Europe there is a first case reported.

A Spanish nurse Teresa Romero (44) has, when dropping their protective clothing, touching her face accidentally with a possibly infected Work Glove, her treating physician German Ramirez said on Wednesday in Madrid. “It is possible that it was not her fault, but simply an oversight,” Ramírez said. Therefore, Romero did not immediately recall when she got ill. Romero is the first woman who has been infected with the virus in Europe. She worked in the Madrid clinic Carlos III; on the two Spanish, missionaries who died after their return from West Africa to Ebola in August and September. They first went to the doctor on October 5, because although they felt sick for six days. Meanwhile, five co-workers were asked in quarantine.

Democratic Rep. Raul Ruiz and Republican challenger Assemblyman Brian Nestande participate in the 36th Congressional District debate held by The Desert Sun, KESQ News Channel 3 and CBS Local 2 on Sunday, Oct. 5, 2014.

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The US military has called off its search for a missing Marine, who is now presumed dead. The aircrew member would be the first American casualty in the bombing campaign against the Islamic State.

The missing Marine, Cpl. Jordan L. Spears of Memphis, Indiana, was identified by the Corps on Friday afternoon. The 21-year-old was aboard an MV-22 Osprey participating in flight operations in support of the mission against the Islamic State (formerly ISIS) on Wednesday. The aircraft lost power on takeoff from the USS Makin Island in the North Arabian Gulf, and looked as if it might crash, the Navy reported. Spears and another enlisted aircrew member bailed into the sea before the pilot was able to regain control and safely land aboard the Wasp-class amphibious assault ship.

“There were four personnel aboard the aircraft when it took off, two pilots and two enlisted aircrew. The lost Marine was one of the two enlisted aircrew who exited the aircraft when it appeared the Osprey might crash into the ocean,” the Navy said in a statement.

US Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard personnel began an extensive search-and-rescue operation immediately, recovering one of the two crew members. The process used “all available assets, which continued throughout the night and the next day,” the statement continued.

Cpl. Jordan L. Spears (Marine Corps)

The search ended Friday at 3:00 p.m. GMT, “after efforts to locate him were unsuccessful,” the military said. “The Marine is presumed lost at sea.”

Spears’ name was withheld for 24 hours until after family-member notification, in accordance with Defense Department policy.

The second Marine was recovered relatively quickly. He is in stable condition on board the ship, and the Navy is investigating the cause of the mishap.

The MV-22 Osprey acquired a reputation of being unreliable and difficult to fly, and had a “troubled development history that included numerous deadly crashes,” the Washington Post’s Checkpoint blog reported.

Two years ago, residents in Okinawa, Japan protested a deployment of Ospreys to the US Futemma military base because there were still bugs to be worked out in the aircraft’s hybrid helicopter-airplane design, human rights activist Ryan Dawson told RT at the time.

“For them to bringing these MV-22s is very dangerous. It could fall on someone’s head, and that is not an exaggeration,” Dawson said.“They don’t work, they are very expensive and very dangerous.”

The USS Makin Island is on a scheduled deployment to the US 5th Fleet area of responsibility in the Middle East under US Central Command. Makin Island amphibious ready group (ARG) embarked with elements of the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit Camp Pendleton, California to support operations in Iraq and Syria, and throughout the region. The three-ship, 4,000-troop ARG left its San Diego home on July 25. The group can be used for a wide range of crisis-response capabilities, including disaster relief and combat operations, and is often referred to as a “Swiss Army Knife” for its flexibility, Stars and Stripes reported.

Spears was assigned to Marine Tiltrotor Squadron 163, Marine Aircraft Group 16, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, California, the Marine Corps statement said.

The USS Makin Island ship (AFP Photo / Anthony Wallace)

A new video has surfaced showing Islamic State militants allegedly beheading UK aid worker Alan Henning, the Associated Press reports.

According to AP, the footage shows an Islamic State (ISIS / ISIL) militant murdering Henning before threatening to also kill American Peter Edward Kassig.

Before ending the video, the Islamic State fighter blames President Barack Obama’s renewed military action in Syria and Iraq for his and other hostages’ deaths.
“Obama, you have started your aerial bombard of Shams [Syria], which keep on striking our people, so it is only right that we strike the next of your people,” the masked militant said, as quoted by AP.

The video was released on Friday and resembles other beheading videos published online by the Islamic State.

Henning is now the fourth Westerner known to be beheaded by the Islamic State. Other victims include British aid worker David Haines and two Americans: journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff. An ISIS-linked group also beheaded a French tourist.

Alan Henning – a former taxi driver from Manchester – was 47 years old when he was captured by the extremist group last year. He was heading into Syria after joining an aid convoy into the country, and was last seen when British aid worker David Haines was beheaded in a previous video.

Before Henning’s death, his wife Barbara urged the group to release him, saying on September 19 that he is “a peaceful, selfless man.”

At this point, it is unclear if the militant responsible for beheading Henning is the same man who the FBI believes killed other Westerners, including the two Americans. Late last month, the Bureau said it believes it knows the identity of the man previously known only as “Jihadi John,” though it declined to reveal his name or nationality in public.

Kassig – who militants have threatened to behead next – is a 26-year-old former US soldier who was deployed to Iraq back in 2007, the New York Daily News reported. After serving, he decided to start his own aid group to help Syrian refugees. He also spent time in a Palestinian refugee camp and a hospital in Lebanon.