ebola

St. Patrick Hospital has been left off the latest list of CDC Ebola Treatment Centers, released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Tuesday, December 2.

The grandmother of a special needs child that was injured on a Missoula public school playground on Friday has spoken out..

Providence St. Patrick Hospital issued a news release late Tuesday night to the hundreds of media inquiries they have received over the past few weeks regarding their preparations to treat any patients who may present with Ebola.

Missoula's St. Patrick Hospital issued a press release on Friday, outlining protocols for the possibility of receiving a patient with Ebola, or another serious infectious disease.

So, if you're sick and you want to get an ambulance to your house VERY quickly to help you out, maybe give this a shot: Tell the 911 dispatcher that you have Ebola. That'll get 'em there fast! A woman in Columbus, Ohio, did just that last week and, well, it worked.

Missoula is one in four locations across the country that are officially prepared to handle a case of Ebola, however, hundreds in the area have made frantic calls to hospitals and emergency services, worried about the issue.

Sunday was a busy day for western Montana firefighters, with a grass fire near Frenchtown and a house fire just outside Lolo..

Even though St. Patrick Hospital has an officially approved facility for handling patients with the Ebola virus, Marshall Bloom with Rocky Mountain Labs in Hamilton said this week that all well-equipped medical facilities can safely handle these highly contagious diseases, including Missoula Community Medical Center.

The media is doing a great job freaking people out with the ebola outbreak. I for one am one of those people. I am also a firm beleiver that a virus can bring on the zombie apocalypse. Thanks to ABC news, I will not be getting any sleep tonight, as they have footage of a "presumed dead" man waking up in a body bag in Africa...