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Maine governor says negotiations with nurse failed, vows to exercise the "full extent" of his authority to protect public

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Nurse defies authorities, ends voluntary Ebola quarantine at Maine home

Lawyer for Kaci Hickox says she wont cooperate further with the state until it lifts "all or most of the restrictions"

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Extremists connected to the Islamic State (IS, previously ISIS) have been considering using Ebola as a weapon against the West, Spains State Secretary for Security, Francisco Martinez, said in an address to the parliament.

Martinez stated that this type of activity serves as further proof that the internet is an an extension of the battlefield for the Islamic State, which uses cyberspace for threatening enemies through propaganda, preparing operations, exchanging information, ideological training, recruiting new members and acquiring finance.

There are many examples of online terrorist chat logs discussing the use of biological warfare against the West, Spains RTVE public broadcasting corporation reported.

The most recent talks took place in a jihadist chat room, related to the Islamic State, in mid-September. The use of Ebola as a poisonous weapon against the United States was the topic of conversation, Martinez said.

There were also a number of tweets that talked about the use of deadly chemical products from laboratories, he added, stating that terrorist organization Ansar al-Islam was involved.

Despite increasing evidence of biological attacks on the West, US Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson denied allegations of the Islamic States plans to use biological weapons. Weve seen no specific credible intelligence that [the Islamic State] is attempting to use any sort of disease or virus to attack our homeland, Johnson said earlier in October.

Canada imposes visa ban

The latest cases of Ebola in Spain and the US have sparked fears of an even bigger outbreak, prompting Canada to step up its border security so as to limit the risk of infection spreading into the country.

The federal government announced on Friday it is suspending the processing of visa applications for residents and nationals who have been in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone in the last three months. The same goes for permanent residence applications.

"New precautionary measures [are] to protect the health and safety of Canadians, the government said in a statement, adding that the move does not affect Canadians in West Africa helping to contain Ebola, adding that health workers will be permitted back in the country.

Canada has become the second country after Australia to deny visas to foreign nationals from the three affected West African countries.

So far, about 5,000 people have died this year in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, in the worst Ebola outbreak ever recorded.

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What Kaci Hickox Has to Say About Court???s Isolate Decision

Maine nurse who treated Ebola patients can desert house, court rules.

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Kaci Hickox said, after fighting her Ebola-related involuntary isolate in court, she will stay out of town until incubation period is up anyway

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Facebook urges 1.2 billion users to fight Ebola with new donation button

The button, now appearing at the top of the Facebook news feed for its 1.23 billion users, shows a blue hand clasping a red heart with the inscription: [User name], You Can Help Stop Ebola. Underneath is written the statement, Support organizations working in West Africa so they can stop the disease and save lives.

We welcome ***s #EbolaResponse efforts American innovation helping global community! http://t.co/nTQlPEUKyBpic.twitter.com/hNJhY0BDwM

US Embassy Ghana (***) November 6, 2014

Clicking to donate, a user can select one of three charities that can accept money globally to fight Ebola the International Medical Corps, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, and Save the Children.

"We need to get Ebola under control in the near term so that it doesnt spread further and become a long term global health crisis that we end up fighting for decades at large scale, like HIV or polio," Zuckerberg wrote on his Facebook page last month.

READ MORE: Entire villages disappeared: Ebola deaths in Sierra Leone underreported

Facebook created the button to make it easier for users to donate to charities to help battle the disease, hoping to replicate the success of past disaster campaign efforts. Previous disaster campaigns raised $486 million after Haitis earthquake and $88 million for Typhoon Haiyan. The American Red Cross said only $3.7 million has come in for Ebola, lagging far behind other campaigns. The disease has already killed 5,000 people with over 13,000 confirmed cases.

READ MORE: Soldiers returning from W. Africa to be quarantined in Italy for 21 days

As a result, Facebook is hoping that its donation button will increase the money going towards the Ebola response, reported the Associated Press.

Whether or not it succeeds remains to be seen, but just recently it was revealed that Facebook can exert a surprising and significant amount of influence over its users. Three months before the 2012 election, for example, the company began influencing the content of news feeds with hard news stories rather than personal highlights from friends and acquaintances. According to Facebook, in a survey it did with users, those efforts caused an uptick in political awareness, and helped boost voter turnout by three percent.

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Back on the Ebola front, Zuckerberg is also collaborating with the nonprofit NetHope to donate 100 satellite communication terminals to boost internet and phone services to virus-affected areas in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. That way, patients and health workers can keep in touch with their families.

These units will provide connectivity in places where there is no coverage, Chris Weasler, Facebooks head of spectrum policy and connectivity planning, told the AP. He said Ebola units are being set up where the disease is, which is not necessarily near internet coverage.

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All 177 people monitored for Ebola in Texas are out of the woods.

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Lara Logan reports from an Ebola treatment center run by the International Medical Corps in Liberia, where Americans are fighting the battle against the deadly disease. Observe Logans report on Sunday, Nov. 9 at 7 p.m. ET/PT.

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DARPA biotech portion seeks ideas to solve Ebola crisis, prepare for next thing

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Pentagons research organization tasked with developing advanced military technology has announced a tender for innovative research proposals of interest to the Biological Technologies Office (BTO).

BTO is interested in a range of emerging technical areas, including but not marginal to human-machine interfaces, human performance, infectious disease, and synthetic biology. The overarching goal is to develop, demonstrate, and transition biologically-based technologies as part of the national security toolkit, the solicitation reads.

The Pentagons technology arm is prepared to invest up to $700,000 in a promising idea that shows potential in revolutionary advances in science, technologies, or systems. It calls on scientists to radically change established practice.

DARPAs Biological Technologies Office, which launched earlier this year, looks at biology as a technology, with a focus on harnessing living systems or integrating those systems with nonliving systems, said Alicia Jackson, deputy director of DARPAs biological technologies office.

The global Ebola crisis which has already affected a number of US states, is one of the concerns for the Department of Defense, but overall the research aims to tackle other potential virus-related threats.

We are trying to rethink that paradigm. Were not just interested in solving the Ebola crisis. We want to be prepared for the next thing. Were looking for a way to completely transform the way were attacking these problems, either with a vaccine or therapeutics or diagnostics, said Jackson.

Jackson wants the applicants to submit white papers no longer than two pages. In-house DARPA managers will review the proposals before asking some teams to direct with a longer treatment.

DARPA with an annual $2.915 billion allot was just awarded another $112 million from emergency funding announced by the White House to support the response to Ebola at home and abroad.

The request includes funding for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to support immediate efforts aimed at developing technologies that are relevant to the Ebola crisis, such as providing immediate temporary immunity, including through the use of antibodies from survivors of Ebola and other infectious diseases that will help provide a cease gap until an effective vaccine is available, and developing new technologies that could shorten the vaccine development timeline from years to months, a White House statement reads.

In order to help contain the disease, the US has already deployed over 1,900 troops in Liberia and Senegal. Upon their return to American soil, AP reports, the personnel will be quarantined for 21 days in one of 5 specially designated military bases Fort Hood and Fort Happiness, Texas; Fort Bragg, North Carolina; Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington; and Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia.

Up to 5,000 more Ebola deaths likely unreported WHO

The official death toll from the Ebola epidemic has risen to 4,950 out of 13,241 confirmed cases, WHO announced on Friday.

Case incidence is declining in some districts in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, while steep rises perpetuate in other districts, the organization said basing it on the latest figures to November 4.

However, some 5,000 fatalities could be missing from the count, WHOs strategy leading Christopher Dye, told AFP the day before.

There are lots of missing deaths in this epidemic, he said, clarifying that this figure stems from the knowledge that the fatality rate in the epidemic centered in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone stands at about 70 percent.

On Friday the UN agency also issued a guideline for burials of those who have died from the deadly disease. Burial preparation are highly dangerous as they often require close contact with the body and personal property, which still contains high levels of the Ebola virus.

At least 20 percent of new Ebola infections occur during burials. By building trust and respect between burial teams, bereaved families, and religious groups, we are building trust and safety in the response itself, Pierre Formenty, one of the WHOs top Ebola medical experts told Xinhua.

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Lara Logan reports from an Ebola treatment center run by the International Medical Corps in Liberia, where Americans are fighting the battle against the deadly disease. Watch Logans report on Sunday, Nov. 9 at 7 p.m. ET/PT.

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