Dec 29 Watch 5:54 Guinea reaches Ebola-free milestone, but wariness lingers By PBS News Hour Guinea, the first country hit with the deadly Ebola outbreak nearly two years ago, is now free of the disease, according the the World Health Organization. More than 2,500 people died in that nation before the virus was fully contained. Continue watching
Nov 24 Liberian boy dies after new Ebola cases emerge By Joshua Barajas After a fresh round of Ebola cases were announced in Liberia last week, a 15-year-old boy has died of the disease, the first fatal case for the embattled country after it was twice declared Ebola-free this year, health officials said… Continue reading
Nov 23 Watch How to grow an Ebola vaccine with a tobacco plant By PBS News Hour What looks like an ordinary greenhouse is actually an around-the-clock Ebola vaccine factory. At a facility in Kentucky, plants are being injected with a protein in order to spur them into producing one of the three antibodies used in the… Continue watching
Nov 21 New Ebola cases hit Liberia months after nation declared free of virus By Andrew Mach Three new cases of Ebola emerged in Liberia this week, more than two months after the World Health Organization declared the country free of the deadly virus. Continue reading
Nov 07 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… Continue reading
Oct 15 Scottish nurse now 'critically ill' after she recovered from Ebola By Joshua Barajas A Scottish nurse who recovered from Ebola nearly a year ago is now critically ill, the Royal Free Hospital in London said Wednesday. Continue reading
Oct 08 Watch For Gates, better training for front line workers key no matter the challenge By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Sep 14 Watch 9:04 Why researchers are racing to test an Ebola vaccine for apes By PBS News Hour Over the years the Ebola virus has wiped out a significant number of great apes, threatening to reduce those populations to vulnerable levels. In Louisiana, a controversial effort is underway to conduct vaccine tests on captive chimpanzees in order to… Continue watching
Sep 14 Watch 54:26 PBS NewsHour full episode September 14, 2015 By PBS News Hour Monday on the NewsHour, European governments gather to grapple with the refugee crisis. Also: A new report on the lessons learned from Ferguson, a controversial race to develop a vaccine to stop Ebola in wild apes and a look ahead… Continue watching
Aug 24 Ebola survivors experience lingering ailments By Michelle Harven Of the roughly 13,000 Ebola survivors, The Associated Press reports that many are experiencing lingering effects even after beating the deadly virus. Continue reading