Ebola

Four people in yellow hazmat suits and masks stand on grass, with one person in blue protective gear assisting.
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Ebola spread challenges global preparedness
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Viruses at the Movies
Walter Odong is a survivor of one of the first major ebola epidemics- which tore through northern Uganda in 2000.
Health
There’s a new Ebola vaccine — but the fight is far from over
Men walk by a mural that reads "Get the hell of Liberia, Ebola! And don't come back" in Monrovia, Liberia, April 1, 2016.
Justice
Ebola is over. Now the US wants a group of West African immigrants to go home.
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Black and Muslim, some African immigrants feel the brunt of Trump’s immigration plans
A doctor in protective clothing in the Ebola Training Academy in Freetown, Sierra Leone, on Dec. 16, 2014.
Health
A new Ebola vaccine may be ‘up to 100 percent effective’
The blood of a survivor of the Ebola virus is extracted as part of a study conducted at Liberia's John F. Kennedy Hospital in Monrovia, Liberia in June.
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Ebola survivors struggle with long-term effects of the virus
The blood of a survivor of the Ebola virus is extracted as part of a study launched at Liberia's John F. Kennedy Hospital in Monrovia, Liberia, June 17, 2015.
Medicine
West Africa is Ebola-free. Or is it?
Health workers rest outside a quarantine zone at a Red Cross facility in the town of Koidu, Kono district in Eastern Sierra Leone December 19, 2014. Sierra Leone, neighbouring Guinea and Liberia was at the heart of the world's worst recorded outbreak of E
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The day so many Guineans were waiting for is finally here
Healthcare workers were some of the hardest hit during Sierra Leone's Ebola epidemic. The names of 200 of those who died will be read at a vigil in Freetown. (Photo of hospital staff in Freetown at the height of the outbreak).
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Counting down to an Ebola-free future in Sierra Leone
Vanessa Kerry
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Like her father, Vanessa Kerry is reporting for duty. Her mission: Preventing the next outbreak.
Umaru Fofana is one of Africa's most respected journalists. But he says that covering Ebola tested him in ways he never expected
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Umaru Fofana says he ‘had to let the world know’ about Ebola
One of many banners around Freetown, Sierra Leone, warning people not to touch one another because of Ebola.
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Emerging from the spectre of Ebola
A health worker injects a woman with an Ebola vaccine during a trial in Liberia
Health
Experimental Ebola vaccine is ‘highly efficacious and safe’ — but late
Kai Brothers wants to share his good luck with others by helping scientists develop a novel treatment for HIV.
Health
This man hopes doctors can learn how to stop HIV by studying him
The Ebola virus might remain present in body fluids including semen longer than previously thought.
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Unravelling an ‘epidemiological mystery’ about the transmission of Ebola in semen
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These women show what it looks like to survive Ebola in Liberia
Interviewing people in Guinea in December "They were telling me they didn’t believe Ebola was a real virus. "BBC correspondent Tulip Mazumdar conducts an interview in Guinea in December 2014. "They were telling me they didn’t believe Ebola was a real vir
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Ebola veterans warn that vigilance is still needed as case numbers drop
An ambulance transporting an Ebola patient drives to the entrance of a treatment centre outside Freetown, Sierra Leone.
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An American aid worker with Ebola receives speedy care, while a Sierra Leonean colleague is ‘left behind’
A baby looks out of a box at an outdoor market in Devils Hole, Sierra Leone. A new report suggests Ebola has created 12,000 orphans in the West African country.
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Armies of student volunteers are key to Sierra Leone’s fight against Ebola
As the Ebola epidemic peaks, new challenges are emerging in Liberia
Health
Now that Ebola is subsiding, the question is what to do with contaminated sewage
American soldiers take part in a ceremony marking the end of their mission to fight Ebola in Monrovia, Liberia, on February 26, 2015.
Health
The war against Ebola isn’t over, but American troops can still come home
Student at Gibson High School in Monrovia, Deborah Natt,16, is smiling to be back at school. At every entrance there is a handwashing station.
Health
As Ebola loosens grip, Liberia’s schools begin re-opening
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio walks with Dr. Craig Spencer, at right, as he is discharged from Bellevue Hospital after being declared free of the Ebola virus on November 11, 2014.
Medicine
After surviving Ebola, Craig Spencer still feels ‘violated’ by America’s needless panic
At Redemption Hospital in Liberia, health workers screen patients for Ebola at the entrance to the facility, cleaning them off with a chlorine solution, taking their temperature and asking a series of questions. "At our hospital we have tried to create a
Health
Ebola is creating a new epidemic of untreated illness and injury
Many Kenyans, like this man, do not speak English-- but they may speak several African languages.
Development
To make a real difference in some of Africa’s poorest countries, we should train more translators
Sierra Leone's Ebola epidemic continues to claim lives
Health
Ebola is leaving a new generation of orphans
A member of a burial team prepares to spray a colleague with chlorine disinfectant in Monrovia.
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Despite international aid, some Ebola workers are still ‘on the frontlines with no ammunition’
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A mural in Monrovia illustrating health instructions for treating the Ebola virus.
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Liberians worry that next week’s elections might spread Ebola
Edward Turay, Sierra Leone's High Commissioner to Britain, attends the "Defeating Ebola: Sierra Leone" conference in central London on October 2, 2014.
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Ebola cases are soaring in Sierra Leone, and the government is coming up short
Doctors help each other with their protective suits during an Ebola virus drill in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
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An epidemiologist in Monrovia describes hazmat training — from hand washing to elbow bumps
Liam Payne, singer with British boy band One Direction, leaves the recording of the Band Aid 30 charity single in London on November 15, 2014.
Music
Musicians hope One Direction and a classic Christmas song can help fight Ebola
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An epidemiologist suggests we take cues from the AIDS crisis in dealing with Ebola
Young residents pose for a photograph on a street in the Clifton neighborhood of Staten Island in New York on October 25, 2014. The area is home to a community known as "Little Liberia" — it has the largest concentration of Liberians outside of Africa.
Health
A new hotline fights Ebola-related stigma against African immigrants
Nurse Kaci Hickox and her boyfriend, Ted Wilbur, speak with the media outside of their home in Fort Kent, Maine, on October 31, 2014. Hickox defied quarantine orders in New Jersey and Maine after returning from West Africa but testing negative for Ebola.
Health
Calm down — America is officially Ebola-free
Susan Sorrenti, an ICU nurse at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, nearly died from SARS back in 2003. She says she feels empathy for the nurses in Texas who contracted Ebola from treating a sick patient.
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The US Ebola cases remind Toronto healthcare workers of their SARS outbreak in 2003
Sierra Leonean nurse Veronica Koroma (left) and doctor Donald Samuel Grant (right) stand by a patient in the Lassa fever ward at Kenema Government Hospital in February, 2011
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West Africans have another virus to worry about — Lassa fever
A health worker holds an antiseptic solution during the 2015 African Nations Cup qualifying soccer match between Ivory Coast and Sierra Leone at the Felix Houphouet Boigny Stadium in Abidjan on September 6, 2014.
Sports
Africa’s biggest soccer tournament will go on despite the Ebola threat
Residents who were in an Ebola quarantine area complain to a security officer as they wait for their relatives to bring them food and essentials, in West Point, Monrovia, on August 23, 2014.
Health
It’s not just the US — Liberian officials are rethinking Ebola quarantines
Reuben Koroma, a founding member of the band Sierra Leone’s Refugee All-Stars, at his temporary home in Providence, Rhode Island.
Music
A band of Sierra Leonean war refugees is trapped outside their country — again
Nurse Deborah Wilson has recently returned from Liberia, where she worked with Doctors Without Borders to treat Ebola patients.
Medicine
An Ebola nurse faces widespread stigma after returning from Liberia
An endangered mountain gorilla rests inside a forest in a Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Rwanada.
Health
We still don’t know for sure how Ebola reached humans
Housing Works CEO Charles King, second from left, speaks out against the current quarantine rules put into effect in New York and New Jersey following Ebola fears in the region outside of Bellevue Hospital in New York on October 27, 2014.
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US medical workers strike back at strict Ebola quarantines
Volunteers put on protective suits during an Ebola training session held by Germany's Red Cross in Würzburg, on October 21, 2014
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How a wedding gown designer is taking on hazmat suits
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Music
Liberian immigrants hope their song will offer support to those dealing with Ebola back home
Soldiers from the U.S. Army put on one of three pairs of protective gloves during their final session of personal protective equipment training.
Health
How ‘big data’ could help stop the spread of Ebola
Liberian American Shoana Solomon started a campaign called "I am a Liberian, not a virus," to combat the stigma of Ebola.
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The ‘I am Liberian, not a virus’ campaign confronts the stigma of Ebola
A US Coast Guard corpsman at Washington Dulles International Airport checks the temperature of a traveler from West Africa.
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Ebola-related precautions on flights from West Africa get praise from this Liberian
Government health workers are seen during the administration of blood tests for the Ebola virus in Kenema, Sierra Leone, on June 25, 2014.
Medicine
The race is on to make a better Ebola test kit
A man washes his hands at a tap outside the Green Pharmacy at Area 8 in Abuja, Nigeria.
Health
Nigeria’s government stunned critics in acting quickly to make the country ‘Ebola free’
A health worker checks the temperature of a man at a roadside medical checkpoint outside Ganta, Liberia.
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How Liberians confronting Ebola manage to keep calm while Americans panic
A health worker is reflected in a mirror as he prepares protective equipment in Sierra Leone’s capital city, Freetown. Cuba has dispatched 165 health workers to the country to combat the Ebola outbreak.
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How Cuba is leading the international fight against Ebola
Health workers remove the body a woman who died from the Ebola virus in the Aberdeen district of Freetown, Sierra Leone, on October 14, 2014.
Health
One story describes the oppressive Ebola ‘siege’ in Sierra Leone
Customers must wash their hands in chlorinated water before entering the boutique, Moie, owned by Patrice Juah in Monrovia, Liberia.
Health
Welcome to the ‘non-stop, nerve-wracking, temperature-taking, handshake-prohibiting Ebola ride’
AC Milan's Michael Essien takes part in a training session at the Vicente Calderon stadium in Madrid on March 10, 2014, ahead of a UEFA Champions League match against Atlético Madrid.
Sports
Soccer star Michael Essien doesn’t have Ebola — so who started the rumor that he did?
A fan of the Ivory Coast holds a sign with a message against Ebola during a 2015 African Nations Cup qualifier between Ivory Coast and Sierra Leone in Abidjan, the Ivorian capital.
Sports
Ebola makes Sierra Leone’s soccer team ‘the ultimate outcast’
Health workers wearing protective equipment are pictured at the Island Clinic in Monrovia, Liberia on September 30, 2014, where patients are treated for Ebola.
Health
Even in the US, a doctor who treats Ebola is treated like a ‘half hero, half pariah’
Workers put the finishing touches on an Ebola virus treatment center in Monrovia on October 9, 2014.
Medicine
Keeping disease and people separate isn’t easy, even at Ebola treatment centers
US Marines have their temperatures taken upon arrival at Roberts International airport outside Monrovia, Liberia, on October 9, 2014.
Health
America’s ambassador in Liberia says progress must be quicker on Ebola