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Ebola

A quiet street is shown with a white sign with warnings about the coroanvirus printed on it in the nearground.
Top of The World
Lockdowns in Germany; Trump considering moving US troops from Germany to Poland; The Democratic Republic of Congo declares Ebola outbreak over
A woman speaks at a microphone in front of world flags
Global Politics
Pandemic security must be ‘top line concern’ says former Amb. Power
A close up of gloved hands holding a vaccine.
COVID-19
Research on COVID-19 vaccine shows unique global collaboration, says Ebola vaccine scientist
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
Tourists walk next to the display flight information at Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport, where cases of novel coronavirus has been confirmed in Barcelona, Spain February 26, 2020.
Health & Medicine
Banning travel is not the best way to contain the coronavirus, Ebola expert says
We see a close up of a man, who visits the new MSF (Doctors Without Borders) Ebola treatment centre in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo.
Health & Medicine
Scientists say Ebola is no longer incurable
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
Two medical staff wear face masks at hospital.
Health & Medicine
DR Congo Ebola outbreak spreads to neighboring Uganda, activating rapid preparedness response
workers carrying coffin of a victim of ebola
Health & Medicine
Deadly Ebola outbreak contained within 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
Congolese officials wear haz-mat suits in the DRC
Health & Medicine
Ebola fight has new science but faces old hurdles in restive Congo
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Health & Medicine
In ebola outbreak, an experimental vaccine is put to the test
Walter Odong is a survivor of one of the first major ebola epidemics- which tore through northern Uganda in 2000.
Health
There’s a new Ebola vaccine — but the fight is far from over
The blood of a survivor of the Ebola virus is extracted as part of a study launched at Liberia's John F. Kennedy Hospital in Monrovia, Liberia, June 17, 2015.
Medicine
West Africa is Ebola-free. Or is it?
Frontline's "Outbreak"
Health
Inside the troubled early days of the Ebola response
The Ebola virus might remain present in body fluids including semen longer than previously thought.
Medicine
Unravelling an ‘epidemiological mystery’ about the transmission of Ebola in semen
A baboon stakes out a walkway near the entrance of Tanzania's Udzungwa National Park. With human settlement at the base of the still wild Udzungwa Mountains growing fast, humans and wild animals are coming into ever more frequent contact, creating what on
Environment
To prevent the next Ebola, scientists try to catch new viruses before they break out
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Health
These women show what it looks like to survive Ebola in Liberia
Young kids take part in informal French language lessons in the village of Meliandou, Guinea, ground zero for the West African Ebola outbreak.
Health
Why my photo from Guinea sparked a soccer star’s search for one boy
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
An ambulance transporting an Ebola patient drives to the entrance of a treatment centre outside Freetown, Sierra Leone.
Health
An American aid worker with Ebola receives speedy care, while a Sierra Leonean colleague is ‘left behind’
A baby looks out of a box at an outdoor market in Devils Hole, Sierra Leone. A new report suggests Ebola has created 12,000 orphans in the West African country.
Health
Armies of student volunteers are key to Sierra Leone’s fight against Ebola
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
Student at Gibson High School in Monrovia, Deborah Natt,16, is smiling to be back at school. At every entrance there is a handwashing station.
Health
As Ebola loosens grip, Liberia’s schools begin re-opening
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
The dove, a symbol of peace, flies over a mosque in Afghanistan.
Conflict
Why I’m optimistic, even among grim news
The dove, a symbol of peace, flies over a mosque in Afghanistan.
Culture
Why I find optimism amid grim news
Students talk and catch up at Matilda Newport Junior High School, a public school, on the first day of registration for classes in Monrovia.
Culture
It’s back to school for these Liberia kids
A member of a burial team prepares to spray a colleague with chlorine disinfectant in Monrovia.
Health
Despite international aid, some Ebola workers are still ‘on the frontlines with no ammunition’
A mural in Monrovia illustrating health instructions for treating the Ebola virus.
Health
Liberians worry that next week’s elections might spread Ebola
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
Ebola evacuation
Health
An epidemiologist suggests we take cues from the AIDS crisis in dealing with Ebola
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
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
Housing Works CEO Charles King, second from left, speaks out against the current quarantine rules put into effect in New York and New Jersey following Ebola fears in the region outside of Bellevue Hospital in New York on October 27, 2014.
Health
US medical workers strike back at strict Ebola quarantines
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Music
Liberian immigrants hope their song will offer support to those dealing with Ebola back home
Liberian American Shoana Solomon started a campaign called "I am a Liberian, not a virus," to combat the stigma of Ebola.
Health
The ‘I am Liberian, not a virus’ campaign confronts the stigma of Ebola
A US Coast Guard corpsman at Washington Dulles International Airport checks the temperature of a traveler from West Africa.
Health
Ebola-related precautions on flights from West Africa get praise from this Liberian
A man washes his hands at a tap outside the Green Pharmacy at Area 8 in Abuja, Nigeria.
Health
Nigeria’s government stunned critics in acting quickly to make the country ‘Ebola free’
A health worker checks the temperature of a man at a roadside medical checkpoint outside Ganta, Liberia.
Health
How Liberians confronting Ebola manage to keep calm while Americans panic
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
Kate Winslet portrays CDC investigator Dr. Erin Mears in the 2011 film, "Contagion."
Health
If you want to know what CDC scientists are going through, check out Hollywood’s ‘Contagion’
AC Milan's Michael Essien takes part in a training session at the Vicente Calderon stadium in Madrid on March 10, 2014, ahead of a UEFA Champions League match against Atlético Madrid.
Sports
Soccer star Michael Essien doesn’t have Ebola — so who started the rumor that he did?
Health workers wearing protective equipment are pictured at the Island Clinic in Monrovia, Liberia on September 30, 2014, where patients are treated for Ebola.
Health
Even in the US, a doctor who treats Ebola is treated like a ‘half hero, half pariah’
A close up of the Ebola virus
Health
Here’s everything you wish you didn’t need to know about Ebola
US Marines have their temperatures taken upon arrival at Roberts International airport outside Monrovia, Liberia, on October 9, 2014.
Health
America’s ambassador in Liberia says progress must be quicker on Ebola
An ambulance enters the emergency area at the Alcorcón hospital outside Madrid. The Spanish nurse who contracted Ebola while treating infected patients is currently in isolation at the facility.
Media
There’s a fine line between reporting about Ebola and spreading panic
Suited up for the news, a cartoon by Slovakian cartoonist Marian Kemensky.
Arts
An international cartoonists’ conference shows off the artists’ wit and predictive power
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
John Karanjah helps a guest with a picnic breakfast
Economics
Kenya is thousands of miles away from the Ebola outbreak, but tourists are still staying away
A health worker takes a passenger's temperature with an infrared digital laser thermometer at Abidjan's Felix Houphouet Boigny International Airport in Cote d'Ivoire.
Health
An Ebola patient in Dallas dies amid demands for more screening in the US
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