ebola outbreak

5-year-old Ugandan boy dies of Ebola as outbreak spreads beyond Congo

By Rodney Muhumuza, Al-Hadji Kudra Maliro, Associated Press

There have been three confirmed cases in Uganda for the highly contagious disease that has killed nearly 1,400 in Congo.

Some 'Dreamers' face painful reality of no country to call home

The immigration policies of the Trump administration have dramatically changed life for young undocumented Mexicans who came to the U.S. as children. Under DACA, which President Obama implemented in 2012, they were protected from deportation. Now, many have been forced…

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Congo's Ebola crisis threatens to spiral out of control

More than 1,100 people have died from Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Despite information campaigns, new treatment facilities that reduce disease transmission and an effective new vaccine, the outbreak is spreading because of ongoing violence and residents’ deep…

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Congo's presidential election results could face court challenge

By Mathilde Boussion, Associated Press

The election in Congo, which is also facing a deadly Ebola virus outbreak, was long-delayed and marred by irregularities.

Congo police fire bullets, tear gas amid protests over presidential election delay

By Al-Hadji Kudra Maliro, Associated Press

Police in eastern Congo fired live ammunition and tear gas on Thursday to disperse more than 100 people protesting a presidential election delay, blamed on a deadly Ebola outbreak, that means more than 1 million votes will not count.

A single mutation bolstered the fury of West Africa's Ebola outbreak

By Dina Fine Maron, Scientific American

A single genetic alteration may have increased Ebola virus transmissibility and boosted its killing power during the West Africa outbreak.

WHO: Sierra Leone is free of Ebola

By Andrew Mach

Following 42 days with no new cases, thousands of residents gathered in Sierra Leone on Saturday, as the U.N. World Health Organization declared an end to the outbreak that killed 3,589 people and more than 221 health workers since it…

First-ever Ebola vaccine shows 'promise' -- now what?

By Larisa Epatko

A vaccine against the Ebola virus – the first of its kind in the disease’s 40-year recorded history – shows promise in trials in Guinea, according to a report released Friday in the medical journal Lancet.

WHO's 21-step program to better tackle Ebola-level health crises

By Larisa Epatko

A panel of health experts recommended a top-to-bottom restructuring of the World Health Organization on Tuesday in light of its failure to quickly respond to the Ebola crisis.