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Ebola virus disease

A girl washes her hands at a spigot at the entrance of her parents' house in Pikine, on the outskirts of Dakar, Senegal, on March 9, 2020.
COVID-19
What the US can learn from West Africa to slow the spread of coronavirus
A man in medical scrubs writes onto a wooden cross
Health & Medicine
DR Congo has been fighting Ebola for a year. What does the WHO declaration change?
A man sits while getting his temperature checked.
Health & Medicine
‘No place for complacency’ as Ebola detected in eastern DR Congo
A doctor cares for a patient wearing protective clothing inside an isolate cube at a treatment center
Health & Medicine
Congo braces for an Ebola outbreak that may last several months, WHO predicts
Frontline's "Outbreak"
Health
Inside the troubled early days of the Ebola response
Ebola Survivor01_again
Health
These women show what it looks like to survive Ebola in Liberia
Jianjay Potter and Grace Zardon in Monrovia, Liberia.
Health
For Ebola patients, a way to see the faces of those helping
Interviewing people in Guinea in December "They were telling me they didn’t believe Ebola was a real virus. "BBC correspondent Tulip Mazumdar conducts an interview in Guinea in December 2014. "They were telling me they didn’t believe Ebola was a real vir
Health
Ebola veterans warn that vigilance is still needed as case numbers drop
As the Ebola epidemic peaks, new challenges are emerging in Liberia
Health
Now that Ebola is subsiding, the question is what to do with contaminated sewage
A young boy in Ethiopia cries as he gets a measles vaccination
Health
A Nigerian satirist takes a sobering approach to measles, Ebola
At Redemption Hospital in Liberia, health workers screen patients for Ebola at the entrance to the facility, cleaning them off with a chlorine solution, taking their temperature and asking a series of questions. "At our hospital we have tried to create a
Health
Ebola is creating a new epidemic of untreated illness and injury
Sierra Leone's Ebola epidemic continues to claim lives
Health
Ebola is leaving a new generation of orphans
Edward Turay, Sierra Leone's High Commissioner to Britain, attends the "Defeating Ebola: Sierra Leone" conference in central London on October 2, 2014.
Health
Ebola cases are soaring in Sierra Leone, and the government is coming up short
Doctors help each other with their protective suits during an Ebola virus drill in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Health
An epidemiologist in Monrovia describes hazmat training — from hand washing to elbow bumps
Young residents pose for a photograph on a street in the Clifton neighborhood of Staten Island in New York on October 25, 2014. The area is home to a community known as "Little Liberia" — it has the largest concentration of Liberians outside of Africa.
Health
A new hotline fights Ebola-related stigma against African immigrants
Nurse Kaci Hickox and her boyfriend, Ted Wilbur, speak with the media outside of their home in Fort Kent, Maine, on October 31, 2014. Hickox defied quarantine orders in New Jersey and Maine after returning from West Africa but testing negative for Ebola.
Health
Calm down — America is officially Ebola-free
Susan Sorrenti, an ICU nurse at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, nearly died from SARS back in 2003. She says she feels empathy for the nurses in Texas who contracted Ebola from treating a sick patient.
Health
The US Ebola cases remind Toronto healthcare workers of their SARS outbreak in 2003
A satirical map created by Anthony England to show people around the world how little of Africa has been affected by the Ebola outbreak.
Health
Twitter snark helps put the geography of Ebola in stark relief
Sierra Leonean nurse Veronica Koroma (left) and doctor Donald Samuel Grant (right) stand by a patient in the Lassa fever ward at Kenema Government Hospital in February, 2011
Health
West Africans have another virus to worry about — Lassa fever
A health worker holds an antiseptic solution during the 2015 African Nations Cup qualifying soccer match between Ivory Coast and Sierra Leone at the Felix Houphouet Boigny Stadium in Abidjan on September 6, 2014.
Sports
Africa’s biggest soccer tournament will go on despite the Ebola threat
Nurse Deborah Wilson has recently returned from Liberia, where she worked with Doctors Without Borders to treat Ebola patients.
Medicine
An Ebola nurse faces widespread stigma after returning from Liberia
An endangered mountain gorilla rests inside a forest in a Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Rwanada.
Health
We still don’t know for sure how Ebola reached humans
Volunteers put on protective suits during an Ebola training session held by Germany's Red Cross in Würzburg, on October 21, 2014
Health
How a wedding gown designer is taking on hazmat suits
Soldiers from the U.S. Army put on one of three pairs of protective gloves during their final session of personal protective equipment training.
Health
How ‘big data’ could help stop the spread of Ebola
Government health workers are seen during the administration of blood tests for the Ebola virus in Kenema, Sierra Leone, on June 25, 2014.
Medicine
The race is on to make a better Ebola test kit
Eurasian brown bear
Global Scan
A computer saves a Russian man from a bear attack
Health workers remove the body a woman who died from the Ebola virus in the Aberdeen district of Freetown, Sierra Leone, on October 14, 2014.
Health
One story describes the oppressive Ebola ‘siege’ in Sierra Leone
Julian Assange
Global Scan
Remember WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange? If not, he’s got a T-shirt for you
Ebola test
Global Politics
With no time to find a cure, Ebola could be contained faster with a quicker test
A fan of the Ivory Coast holds a sign with a message against Ebola during a 2015 African Nations Cup qualifier between Ivory Coast and Sierra Leone in Abidjan, the Ivorian capital.
Sports
Ebola makes Sierra Leone’s soccer team ‘the ultimate outcast’
A close up of the Ebola virus
Health
Here’s everything you wish you didn’t need to know about Ebola
Workers put the finishing touches on an Ebola virus treatment center in Monrovia on October 9, 2014.
Medicine
Keeping disease and people separate isn’t easy, even at Ebola treatment centers
Cave art
Global Scan
This cave art discovery changes what we thought we knew about the emergence of humanity
Fruit bats like the ones pictured here are often key vectors for diseases like Ebola, and disturbing their habitats may have made humans more vulnerable.
Environment
Here’s how cutting down West African trees made us vulnerable to Ebola
A billboard in Liberia's capital Monrovia offers advice on how to halt the spread of Ebola.
Health
Why doubling down on aid to West Africa will do more to halt Ebola than increased airport screening
Health workers attend a protest on October 7, 2014, outside Madrid's La Paz Hospital calling for Spain's health minister, Ana Mato, to resign after a Spanish nurse contracted Ebola.
Health
At the hospital where a Spanish nurse got Ebola, workers say their training was poor
Hussein Mohamed, originally from Ethiopia, runs a radio show for African immigrants in his hometown of Atlanta.
Health
An Atlanta radio host wants people to stop stigmatizing Africans over Ebola
A man washes his hands at a facility outside the Green Pharmacy, Area 8, in Abuja, Nigeria on September 1, 2014.
Health
Precautions against Ebola are simple, but hard to guarantee every single time
A worker wearing a hazardous material suit arrives at the apartment unit where a man diagnosed with the Ebola virus was staying in Dallas, Texas, on October 3, 2014.
Health
Liberian Americans react to Ebola — and hostility — with ramped-up aid efforts
Bernice Dahn, Liberia's chief medical officer and deputy health minister, has put herself in quarantine as a precaution against Ebola after one of her assistants died from the disease.
Health
Liberia’s top doctor quarantines herself to set an example in her Ebola-ridden country
Ane Bjøru Fjeldsæter, an MSF Mental Health Manager from Norway, poses with six-year-old Ebola survivor Patrick.
Health
Ebola forges a bond between a young boy and the psychologist who helped him
Some of the ultrastructural morphology displayed by an Ebola virus virion is revealed in this undated handout colorized transmission electron micrograph.
Health
The current Ebola outbreak is huge, but at least it’s not spreading particularly quickly
Friends in Jesus African International Church
Health
Where Ebola hits home in the United States
Health workers wearing protective clothing disinfect themselves after an abandoned dead body presenting with Ebola symptoms was found at Duwala market in Monrovia, Liberia, on August 17, 2014.
Health
This American doctor says racism is to blame for the slow response to the Ebola outbreak
A Student Union mosaic wall at University of Akron in Ohio. The university is one of several in the US screening students for Ebola that are returning to campus from West African countries.
Health
Universities are screening students from West Africa for Ebola as they return to school
A health worker, wearing head-to-toe protective gear, offers water to a woman with Ebola at a treatment center for infected persons at Kenema Government Hospital in Kenema, Sierra Leone.
Health
Why isn’t the rest of the world helping fight the Ebola outbreak?
An electron microscope image of the string-like Ebola virus. Scientists at the NIH are working quickly on a drug and vaccine they hope will halt the spread of Ebola.
Medicine
Scientists are racing to perform human trials on a possible cure and vaccine for Ebola
Members of a Red Cross burial team put on personal protective equipment before entering the home of a woman suspected of dying of Ebola in the village of Dia on Monday, August 18, 2014.
Health
A photographer gets up close with the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone
Residents in an Ebola quarantine area in the West Point of Monrovia, Liberia, complain to a security officer as they wait for their relatives to bring them food and essentials on August 23, 2014.
Health
Ebola survivors return to lives of fear and ostracism
Kent Brantly, who contracted the deadly Ebola virus, smiles during a press conference at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. Brantly along with a second American aid worker who contracted Ebola while treating victims of the deadly virus in Libe
Medicine
Two infected Americans are now Ebola-free, but doctors aren’t sure why
Soldiers check people traveling in Bomi County, in the northwestern portion of Liberia, on August 11, 2014.
Health
Fear in Liberia turns violent as a mob attacks an Ebola clinic
An immigration officer wears a face mask at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja August 11, 2014.
Health
Ebola’s spread to Nigeria presents a whole new level of risk
A health worker takes a passenger's temperature with an infrared digital laser thermometer at the Felix Houphouet Boigny international airport in Abidjan on August 13, 2014.
Health
Paul Farmer says the best way to stop Ebola is to build up health care in Africa
A health worker takes a passenger's temperature with an infrared digital laser thermometer at the Felix Houphouet Boigny international airport in Abidjan on August 13, 2014.
Health
Paul Farmer says the best way to stop Ebola is to build up health care in Africa
Fruit bats are seen for sale at a food market in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo.
Development
As the Ebola crisis rages, West African villagers are warned away from fruit bats
Health workers wearing protective masks and gloves gesture as they talk at the Felix Houphouet Boigny international airport in Abidjan August 12, 2014.
Global Scan
Canada will send an experimental Ebola vaccine to Africa
Health
Liberia doesn’t have many doctors, and it’s battling Ebola with minimal supplies
Nurse Monia Sayah of Doctors Without Borders explains to a hospital medical team in Guéckédou, Guinea, how the Ebola virus is transmitted.
Health
The story of one Guinean man who survived Ebola
Children in Lower Johnsonville, Liberia, wash their hands
Development
A Liberian pastor tries to stop the spread of Ebola, one house at a time
A Chinese doctor checks the temperature of a passenger on a flight from Hong Kong to Shanghai during the SARS outbreak in 2003. There are now fears that Ebola could spread via travel from West Africa to the rest of the world.
Medicine
Put away the plastic sheets and duct tape — there’s no Ebola outbreak coming to the US