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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.
FDA Warns Purell to Stop Claiming It Can Prevent the Flu Hand-sanitizer use is an ineffective way to deal with flu season.
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.
Ebola Epidemic Is Officially Over According to the World Health Organization.
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.”
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.”
Ebola Returns to Liberia, Country Was Believed to Be Virus-Free Nearly 5,000 Liberians have died from the virus since last year.
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.
very good things
Oct. 21, 2015
Sierra Leone Celebrates Release of Last Known Ebola Patient “It’s been a very exciting day, people were really celebrating.”
Ebola Is Back in Liberia A 17-year-old boy tested positive for the disease, the nation’s first new case in months.
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.
Liberia Declared Ebola-Free The virus killed more than 4,700 Liberians.
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.”
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.”
Nurse Sues Dallas Hospital Where She Contracted Ebola For failing to provide her with proper training and resources and for violating her privacy.
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.
international intrigue
Feb. 23, 2015
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.
international affairs
Jan. 3, 2015
British Nurse Infected With Ebola Isn’t Doing Well Pauline Cafferkey’s condition has been downgraded to “critical.”
Health-Care Worker Diagnosed With Ebola in Glasgow She had reportedly just returned from Sierra Leone.
war on christmas
Dec. 12, 2014
American Health-Care Worker Who May Have Ebola Arrives in Atlanta The unnamed patient may have contracted the virus while working in West Africa.
good things
Nov. 20, 2014
Doctor Infected With Ebola Dies at Nebraska Medical Center He contracted the virus while treating patients in his native Sierra Leone.
Another Ebola-Infected Doctor Arrives in Nebraska Dr. Martin Salia, a permanent resident of the United States, contracted the virus in Sierra Leone.
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.
U.S. Nurses to Strike Today Over Ebola Safety Concerns Hospitals still don’t have enough protective equipment for Ebola treatment.
As First Quarantine Ends, Mali Reports Second Ebola Death A nurse died after treating a man with Ebola-like symptoms.
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.
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