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From the Archives: How the World's Deadliest Ebola Outbreak Unfolded
And why it wasn’t stopped sooner. Find out in the 2015 documentary ‘Outbreak,’ newly available to stream on FRONTLINE’s YouTube channel.
March 1, 2023
Behind the Life-saving Ebola Vaccine is a Story of Missed Opportunity
Developing new reliable treatments to disease often requires perfect confluence of time, money and scientific breakthrough. For some, it's no surprise that western governments and private corporations missed an early chance to cure what they saw as a niche disease in Africa.
August 13, 2019
What the Failures of the Last Ebola Outbreak Can Teach Us About the Future
FRONTLINE spoke to a range of global health experts about the lessons that were learned from the epidemic in West Africa, and what is being done to avoid making similar mistakes with the current outbreak — and future ones.
August 13, 2019
How Building Community Trust Can Help Fight Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo
International organizations working on the ground in the Democratic Republic of Congo have focused on building community trust as the Ebola outbreak has worn on.
August 13, 2019
Report: Ebola Outbreak Exposed "Organizational Failings" at WHO
A scathing review found the WHO unable to respond rapidly to global health emergencies, despite it status as the U.N. agency countries look to when dealing with crises like the Ebola outbreak.
July 7, 2015
What Is It Like Reporting from the Center of an Ebola Outbreak?
The Ebola crisis was still raging when filmmakers Dan Edge and Sasha J. Achilli travelled there in September to start work on the FRONTLINE investigation, "Outbreak."
May 6, 2015
Meet a Nurse Who Survived Ebola, then Went Back to the Outbreak
When Will Pooley contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone, he was volunteering at a treatment center nicknamed "the terror dome." He could have left anytime, but "I wouldn’t have been able to look myself in the eye," he says.
May 5, 2015
Ending the Ebola Crisis: The View From Inside Doctors Without Borders
The international president of Doctors Without Borders says she's been in some of the worst war zones there are, but nothing compared to the death she witnessed during the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
May 5, 2015
Was Ebola Outbreak an Exception Or Was it a Precedent?
Bruce Aylward, who helped lead the WHO's response to the Ebola outbreak, says the crisis in West Africa is "reflecting the way the world is changing in ways that we don’t fully understand."
May 5, 2015
Ebola: Sounding the Alarm
When people in West Africa started dying of a mysterious illness in early 2014, no one knew the deadliest Ebola outbreak in history had begun. How did it get so bad?
May 5, 2015
After Ebola: Are We Ready for the Next Epidemic?
Even the WHO says the world is unprepared for the next large-scale disease outbreak. What must be done?
May 5, 2015
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