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Ebola outbreak: the deadliest in history
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October 30, 2014
Just let Kaci Hickox have a pizza
It is literally impossible to imagine how Ebola could be transmitted in this particular scenario, which involves a health worker who has twice tested negative for Ebola and a pizza delivery person who has not recently traveled to West Africa.
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October 23, 2014
Mali confirms first Ebola case: a 2-year-old girl
The West African country is the sixth to get the virus this year.
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October 21, 2014
9 questions you were too afraid to ask about Ebola
Am I at risk for Ebola? Does Ebola spread through sex? How did this outbreak get so bad? We've got you covered.
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October 20, 2014
A complete history of Ebola, in one graphic
The team at Involution Studios has put together an incredible graphic explainer of Ebola, how the disease works why this particular outbreak is so bad.
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October 16, 2014
Watch: Nurse with Ebola posts video from her Dallas hospital room
Nina Pham, one of the two Texas' nurses infected with Ebola, posted a video late Thursday night from her hospital in Dallas
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October 15, 2014
Liberia thinks it needs 84,000 more body bags for the Ebola outbreak
Data paints a dire picture of a country bracing for an outbreak that only gets worse.
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October 15, 2014
Nurses are furious, may picket, over inadequate Ebola training
The country's largest nursing union is considering the possibility of strikes if hospitals do not offer more extensive training on how to treat Ebola patient.
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October 15, 2014
Say thank you to nurses. They deserve it.
They are brave, underpaid and on the front lines of fighting the Ebola crisis.
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October 15, 2014
Can you get Ebola on a plane?
These are the circumstances under which you can — and can't — get Ebola in the air.
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October 14, 2014
The Dallas nurse with Ebola received blood from a survivor. Will it save her?
The World Health Organization has touted convalescent blood as a key treatment, though it's still unproven.
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October 13, 2014
A top scientist worries that Ebola has mutated to become more contagious
Peter Jahrling, who helped to discover a new strain of Ebola, thinks the virus that's circulating now might be more easily spread.
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October 12, 2014
A health care worker in Dallas tested positive for Ebola
This would mark the first case of Ebola transmission in the United States.
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October 12, 2014
3 US hospitals stopped Ebola from spreading. Why didn't Texas?
Better training and more experience may have helped America's biocontamination units successfully prevent the transmission of Ebola.
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October 12, 2014
The stunning cuts to America's budget to fight disease outbreaks
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's emergency preparedness budget has fallen about half since 2006.
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October 12, 2014
The nightmare Ebola scenario that keeps scientists up at night
A global epidemic in these five steps.
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October 10, 2014
There is a simple lesson in this Ebola outbreak, and we need to learn it
The Ebola epidemic is horrible. But it's more than that: it's a warning that what comes next could be devastating — unless we learn its lessons now.
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October 8, 2014
How a Spanish hospital let Ebola spread, in one terrifying paragraph
A nurse treating Ebola patients told health care workers "I think I have Ebola." They didn't listen.
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October 8, 2014
The first patient diagnosed with Ebola in the US has died
Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian national, died this morning.
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October 8, 2014
What we know about the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the US
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed the first-ever case of Ebola diagnosed in America.
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October 8, 2014
What it feels like to get Ebola
Gloria Tumwijuke nearly died from the Ebola virus in a 2012 outbreak in Uganda. Here's her story.
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October 7, 2014
Spanish nurse gets Ebola — it's the first infection outside of Africa
This is the first case of Ebola spread outside of West Africa this year.
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October 4, 2014
Here's how a hospital builds an Ebola-proof room
There are four hospitals in the United States with special isolation wings to treat highly infectious patients. George Risi runs one of them.
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October 4, 2014
How fear and mistrust in West Africa makes Ebola spread faster
An anthropologist on fear in the Ebola hot zone and how it's destroying the social fabric of communities.
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October 3, 2014
NBC news freelancer diagnosed with Ebola
An American cameraman who had been hired by the network to cover the epidemic has tested positive for the virus.
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October 2, 2014
Why Ebola is very unlikely to go airborne
Fears that Ebola will mutate and spread through the air are overblown, experts say.