Sep 16 Watch As epidemic escalates, can U.S. aid for Ebola be deployed quickly enough? By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Sep 16 Watch Obama pledges money and military personnel to nations struck by Ebola By PBS News Hour The United States will offer 3,000 troops and financial help to health care systems in West Africa that are overwhelmed by Ebola. President Obama announced that U.S. forces will build new treatment facilities, airlift hundreds of thousands of home health… Continue watching
Sep 09 Watch U.S. offers support to fragile, West African health systems to combat Ebola By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Sep 05 Watch News Wrap: Head of African terror group, Al Shabaab is dead By PBS News Hour In our News Wrap Friday, the Pentagon confirmed the death of the leader of the African terror group, Al Shabaab. Also, flash floods and landslides have killed at least 116 in eastern Pakistan and Kashmir. And the third American aid… Continue watching
Sep 03 In Ebola-stricken West Africa, many of the sick ‘have nowhere to go’ By Larisa Epatko Despite world health agencies’ best efforts to clamp down on ever-increasing Ebola outbreaks, people in West Africa who are in the center of the virus' path are finding it hard to get accurate information and proper medical care, United Nations… Continue reading
Sep 02 Watch One family’s quest to unite orphaned Chinese girls with a happy home By PBS News Hour After reaching their fifties and raising their own children, Jenny and Richard Bowen adopted 2-year-old Maya from China after learning of poor orphanage conditions for abandoned girls. Sixteen years later, the Bowens have two adopted daughters from the same region… Continue watching
Aug 28 Watch Ebola’s spread hastens preparations for vaccine testing By PBS News Hour An Ebola vaccine may be ready for human testing as early as next week. Though the vaccine is in its first stage of testing with humans, it showed favorable results in an infected monkey. Gwen Ifill learns more from Dr. Continue watching
Aug 24 Watch Ebola tensions ease in quarantined Liberia, but government mistrust lingers By PBS News Hour There are now more than 2,600 confirmed or suspected cases of Ebola, and more than 1,400 deaths resulting from the virus. All of the cases have originated in West Africa. For the latest on the global health crisis, Drew Hinshaw… Continue watching