Every day seems to being more surprising news about the Ebola virus in the U.S.

This morning we learned that a Texas hospital worker who handled an Ebola sample is on a Caribbean cruise. Meanwhile, the first nurse to test positive for Ebola says she's doing well.

The President says he might name an "Ebola Czar" even though The Federalist reports that there already is an Ebola czar:

What’s particularly interesting about this discussion, then, is that nobody has even discussed the fact that the federal government not ten years ago created and funded a brand new office in the Health and Human Services Department specifically to coordinate preparation for and response to public health threats like Ebola. The woman who heads that office, and reports directly to the HHS secretary, has been mysteriously invisible from the public handling of this threat. And she’s still on the job even though three years ago she was embroiled in a huge scandal of funneling a major stream of funding to a company with ties to a Democratic donor—and away from a company that was developing a treatment now being used on Ebola patients.

So it might not be a stretch to say there still are many questions out there about the deadly virus. To help, the Illinois Department of Public Health has activated an Ebola hotline. It will be managed by staff from the Illinois Poison Center who will be able to answer questions about the virus and the state's response.