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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.

Calm down — America is officially Ebola-free

November 10, 2014Health

The US responded to Ebola quickly, and succeeded in stamping out the small number of known cases. Now that the last Ebola patient in the country has been cleared, one doctor says it’s time to refocus on West Africa.

Medical staff take a blood sample from a suspected Ebola patient at the government hospital in Kenema, July 10, 2014.

Tensions mount between healthcare workers and Ebola-infected communities in West Africa

July 28, 2014Health & Medicine
Dr. William Fischer

This doctor is battling on the frontlines of the ebola crisis in Guinea

June 27, 2014Health & Medicine

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