Feb 17 The joy of going to school in post-Ebola Sierra Leone 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. Continue reading
Jan 14 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… 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
Aug 19 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. Continue reading
Jul 31 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. Continue reading
Jun 17 This rockstar scientist wrote a song about her friends who died from Ebola By News Desk In the world of science, Harvard geneticist Pardis Sabeti is a rock star. She also fronts a guitar-heavy alternative rock band from Boston. Continue reading
Jun 12 Watch 9:29 Why testing an Ebola vaccine isn’t so easy By PBS News Hour In Sierra Leone and Liberia, where the Ebola epidemic has been a nightmare, the promise of a vaccine offers hope. Science correspondent Miles O’Brien reports on the challenges of conducting experimental drug trials there and the desperate need to find… Continue watching
Jun 12 The real killer in the Ebola epidemic By Miles O'Brien Some disasters are more transparent than others. As we departed JFK airport on our way to Brussels and ultimately Freetown, Sierra Leone, we flew right over the Rockaways and Broad Channel, NY. Photojournalist Cameron Hickey was sitting right beside me. Continue reading
Jun 12 Watch 1:41 Flying a drone in the Crew Bay slum of Freetown, Sierra Leone By PBS News Hour Continue watching