Aug 21 Watch American doctor speaks out about his Ebola recovery By PBS News Hour The 33-year-old American doctor Kent Brantley was infected with the Ebola virus while working in a hospital in Liberia, but has reportedly made a full recovery. Standing alongside the medical team that treated him in Atlanta’s Emory University Hospital, Brantley… Continue watching
Aug 19 Watch Doctors Without Borders: Ebola efforts need more people in the field By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Aug 19 As Ebola fatalities hit 1,200, some victims on ZMapp show signs of recovery By Sarah Corapi The world’s worst outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus has now claimed the lives of more than 1,200 people, the World Health Organization said Tuesday. While the disease has carved a destructive path through several West African nations, Liberia recorded… Continue reading
Aug 18 Watch Photographer documents effects of Ebola on daily life in Liberia By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Aug 18 Watch After one quarantine center is attacked in Liberia, another large Ebola medical facility opens By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Aug 15 Watch News Wrap: Mob attacks convoy of Pakistan opposition figure By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Friday, supporters and opponents of Pakistan’s government clashed while thousands of protesters flooded the nation’s capital. The convoy of opposition figure Imran Khan was attacked with stones and gunfire, according to Khan. Police disputed that account. Continue watching
Aug 12 Watch Is talk of ‘magic bullet’ Ebola treatments distracting from more important measures? By PBS News Hour Judy Woodruff leads a conversation with Lawrence Gostin of Georgetown Law and Jonathan Moreno of the University of Pennsylvania on using untested drugs to fight the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the possibility of a new experimental vaccine from Canada,… Continue watching
Aug 12 Watch WHO approves use of untested drugs to fight Ebola, but supply may be running out By PBS News Hour An ethics panel of the World Health Organization unanimously approved using untested drugs to treat Ebola in West Africa, where more than 1,000 people have died from the outbreak so far. A shipment of the U.S.-made drug ZMapp is expected… Continue watching
Aug 07 Ebola crisis may surpass all past outbreaks combined, CDC director says By Lauran Neergaard, Associated Press Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, says the outbreak is unprecedented in part because it's in a region of Africa that never has dealt with Ebola before. He says the outbreak's two main drivers… Continue reading
Aug 06 Watch Should an experimental drug be used to treat Ebola in West Africa? By PBS News Hour The treatment of two Ebola-infected Americans with an experimental drug, Z-Mapp, raises the question of whether it has potential for widespread use in combating the outbreak in West Africa. Judy Woodruff gets perspective on the topic from two experts, Dr. Continue watching