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What We Know About the 2021 Ebola Outbreaks Since the beginning of February, two Ebola patients have died in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and five have died in Guinea.
By Matt Stieb
FDA Warns Purell to Stop Claiming It Can Prevent the Flu Hand-sanitizer use is an ineffective way to deal with flu season.
By Hannah Gold
Ebola Patients Escape Hospital, Increasing Fear of Massive Outbreak The highly contagious virus has spread to Mbandaka, a city of more than a million, and health officials are scrambling to contain it.
By Adam K. Raymond
Ebola Epidemic Is Officially Over According to the World Health Organization.
By Jen Kirby
Country Where Ebola Outbreak Began Declares Itself Free of the Deadly Virus “It’s the best year-end present that God could give to Guinea, and the best news that Guineans could hope for.”
By Jaime Fuller
awful things
Nov. 24, 2015
Liberia Sees First Ebola Death Since July Meanwhile, a panel of international experts say that the response to the outbreak caused “needless suffering and death.”
By Jaime Fuller
Ebola Returns to Liberia, Country Was Believed to Be Virus-Free Nearly 5,000 Liberians have died from the virus since last year.
By Elaine Godfrey
Quarantined Ebola Nurse Sues Chris Christie for False Imprisonment Kaci Hickox says the governor kept her in a “private prison” to play politics with Ebola panic.
By Jonah Shepp
very good things
Oct. 21, 2015
By Ben Ellman
Sierra Leone Celebrates Release of Last Known Ebola Patient “It’s been a very exciting day, people were really celebrating.”
By Jaime Fuller
Ebola Is Back in Liberia A 17-year-old boy tested positive for the disease, the nation’s first new case in months.
By Jen Kirby
Today, the New York Doctor Who Contracted Ebola Is Feeling Fine Craig Spencer on what it felt like to be sick amid a city’s fear and media madness.
By Helen Ouyang
Liberia Declared Ebola-Free The virus killed more than 4,700 Liberians.
By Caroline Bankoff
Liberia Confirms New Case of Ebola After Two Disease-Free Weeks “We will have unfortunately some periods in which our hopes are dashed at this stage in the outbreak.”
By Jaime Fuller
Nancy Snyderman Will Stop Playing a Doctor on TV She’ll go back to being a real-life doctor at a “major US medical school.”
By Margaret Hartmann
Nurse Sues Dallas Hospital Where She Contracted Ebola For failing to provide her with proper training and resources and for violating her privacy.
By Caroline Bankoff
Ebola Doctor Hates the Media and Politics; Is Neither Hipster Nor Hero Dr. Craig Spencer is not impressed with how politicians and media outlets treated him and other Ebola patients in the U.S.
By Jaime Fuller
international intrigue
Feb. 23, 2015
By Margaret Hartmann
The Brief — But Busy — Reign of the Ebola Czar Ron Klain talks about America’s fight against the epidemic as he prepares to step down.
By Marin Cogan
international affairs
Jan. 3, 2015
British Nurse Infected With Ebola Isn’t Doing Well Pauline Cafferkey’s condition has been downgraded to “critical.”
By Caroline Bankoff
Health-Care Worker Diagnosed With Ebola in Glasgow She had reportedly just returned from Sierra Leone.
By Jen Kirby
war on christmas
Dec. 12, 2014
By Katie Zavadski
American Health-Care Worker Who May Have Ebola Arrives in Atlanta The unnamed patient may have contracted the virus while working in West Africa.
By Jessica Roy
good things
Nov. 20, 2014
By Katie Zavadski
Doctor Infected With Ebola Dies at Nebraska Medical Center He contracted the virus while treating patients in his native Sierra Leone.
By Jessica Roy
Another Ebola-Infected Doctor Arrives in Nebraska Dr. Martin Salia, a permanent resident of the United States, contracted the virus in Sierra Leone.
By Caroline Bankoff
dallas ebola patient
Nov. 12, 2014
Dallas Ebola Victim’s Family Reaches a Settlement With Hospital The undisclosed sum will go to his family and to a foundation to fight Ebola in Liberia.
By Jen Kirby
U.S. Nurses to Strike Today Over Ebola Safety Concerns Hospitals still don’t have enough protective equipment for Ebola treatment.
By Jessica Roy
As First Quarantine Ends, Mali Reports Second Ebola Death A nurse died after treating a man with Ebola-like symptoms.
By Margaret Hartmann
good things
Nov. 11, 2014
New York’s (Former) Ebola Patient Hugs His Way Out of the Hospital After 19 days at Bellevue, Dr. Craig Spencer was given a clean bill of health.
By Caroline Bankoff
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