Thirty Ebola experts who traveled recently to West Africa, including an official of the World Health Organization, have been banned from attending a New Orleans medical meeting about infectious diseases.
The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals has warned doctors and others who returned...
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A low pressure system in the Gulf of Mexico could be a hurricane by Saturday bringing ten inches of rain to Louisiana... or it could not develop at all... or it could go to Texas... or it could go to Florida. Computer models are all over the map (above), and forecasters admit this one has...
Tar balls have landed on a Texas beach, meaning oil from the Gulf of Mexico spill has hit all five US Gulf states.Tests identified the small amount of tar found on the Bolivar Peninsula, north-east of Galveston, as coming from BP's blown-out well off Louisiana.
But officials said it was unclear...
US President Barack Obama has said it is "way too early to be optimistic" as he makes his third visit to the oil-hit Gulf of Mexico coast.
Earlier BP expressed confidence that a new cap placed over the ruptured well in the Gulf would capture most of the leaking oil.
But it said it could...
The Gulf of Mexico oil spill is the worst environmental disaster the US has faced, a senior official has said.
White House energy adviser Carol Browner also said the US was "prepared for the worst scenario" that the leak might not be stopped before August.
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The latest attempt to stop the Gulf of Mexico oil leak has failed, the oil giant BP has said.
BP chief operating officer Doug Suttles said the firm was now shifting to a new strategy to stop the spill.
In the failed procedure - known as "top kill" - the firm had been blasting waste material...
Oil giant BP says it is unsure whether its latest attempt to plug a gushing oil well in the Gulf of Mexico has succeeded.
Chief operating officer Doug Suttles said the "top kill" operation had not yet stopped the flow and it was preparing its next plan.
Millions of gallons of oil have leaked...
Oil slick just a few miles from Louisiana coast - CNN.com
A 120-mile oil slick advanced to within a few miles of the mouth of the Mississippi River on Thursday as authorities scrambled to keep the spill from damaging wetlands along the Gulf of Mexico.
The slick was about three miles off the...