Ebola no longer constitutes an international health emergency, the World Health Organization said Tuesday.
Mar 02

By Seema Yasmin, Scientific American
From Liberia in an exclusive Scientific American report, victims say they are tormented by brain deficits and more. A new study hints at hidden virus remnants or immune system overreactions.
Feb 22

By Andrew Taylor and Kevin Freking, Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama Monday sent lawmakers an official $1.9 billion request to combat the spread of the Zika virus in Latin America and the U.S.

By Sara B. May
Months after Ebola forced the people of Sierra Leone into protracted isolation, communities are rediscovering the importance of school and other public spaces.
Jan 14

By Joshua Barajas
The last patient tested negative for the Ebola virus in Liberia, making all three West African countries hardest hit by the outbreak to be free of the disease, the World Health Organization announced Thursday. Though the agency warned that more…
Dec 29

By PBS NewsHour
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.
Nov 24

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…
Nov 23

By PBS NewsHour
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…
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.
Nov 07

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…
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