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Ebola epidemic is over in West Africa, WHO says

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…

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…

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.

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…

In Ebola-ravaged village, nurse sees power of the human spirit

By Larisa Epatko

When Doctors Without Borders called nurse Kim Federici to join their forces fighting Ebola in spring 2014, she answered without reservation.

Missionary recounts Ebola fight as both doctor and patient

By Hari Sreenivasan, Jason Kane

Dr. Kent Brantly contracted Ebola while treating patients during last year's epidemic in West Africa. He was airlifted from Liberia back to the U.S. and received an experimental drug and other treatment at Emory University Hospital. Brantly joins Hari Sreenivasan…

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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 declares Liberia free of Ebola

By Daniel Costa-Roberts

Following more than a month during which no new Ebola cases were reported in the country, Liberia was officially declared Ebola-free on Saturday by the World Health Organization.

President of Liberia will visit U.S. for first time since Ebola outbreak

By Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The president of Liberia will visit the United States later this month, her first trip to the country since the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.