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Nov 10, 2014

To Fight Ebola, Battle the Brain's Bias for Mistrust (Op-Ed)

Paul Zak is professor of economics, psychology and management at Claremont Graduate University in California and author of The Moral Molecule. Richard Morris, a Managing Partner at Regenesis Strategy & Analytics, and Walter Montgomery, a Partner at the strategic-communications firm Finsbury, contributed to this essay. They provided this article to...

Nov 11, 2014

NYC Doctor Who Had Ebola Leaves Hospital

New York doctor Craig Spencer, who was infected with Ebola while treating patients in Guinea, is now free of the virus and is leaving the Bellevue Hospital Center today (Nov. 11). The 33-year-old doctor had been working with Doctors Without Borders during the ongoing Ebola outbreak in West Africa when...

Nov 11, 2014

Early Signs of Ebola-Like Diseases Found

Tests for Ebola virus currently cannot identify the disease until after people show symptoms, and so individuals exposed to the virus have to wait to see if they are infected. But a new study has found potential early markers of diseases similar to Ebola, suggesting it may be possible to...

Nov 14, 2014

Ebola in Dallas: New Details Revealed in CDC Report

More details of exactly what happened in Dallas when three people there — a Liberian man and two nurses — were infected with Ebola are revealed today (Nov. 14) in a new report. One of the new details is that 12 people who had contact with one or more of...

Nov 17, 2014

Doctor with Ebola Dies in Nebraska Hospital

A doctor who contracted the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone died early today (Nov. 17) while receiving treatment at a hospital in Nebraska. Dr. Martin Salia was already suffering from extremely advanced symptoms of an Ebola infection, including kidney failure and respiratory failure, when he arrived at the Nebraska Medical...

Nov 18, 2014

To Stop Ebola, Trust in Health Care Workers Is Crucial

NEW ORLEANS — To stop the current Ebola outbreak and prevent future ones from becoming so large, it's crucial for health care volunteers to build trust in the communities where the disease can spread, well before a crisis starts, experts say. Without such trust, it is hard to get people...

Nov 18, 2014

Ebola Update: Vaccines in Tests, Spike in Mali, Dips in Liberia

No cases of Ebola remain in the United States at the moment, but researchers are busy working on vaccines as the virus continues to spread in West Africa. In a few areas in Liberia, cases may be on the decline, new reports find. Researchers working on a vaccine against the...

Nov 21, 2014

2014 Ebola Outbreak: Full Coverage of the Viral Epidemic

The Ebola outbreak that began in West Africa in early 2014 is the worst outbreak of this virus in history. The Ebola virus has a high mortality rate: in the three countries most affected by the outbreak — Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia — about 70 percent of the infected...

Dec 1, 2014

Liberia, Guinea On Track to Contain Ebola

The West African nations of Liberia and Guinea have achieved a goal of isolating at least 70 percent of people infected with Ebola, and safely burying at least 70 percent of the people who have died of the disease, according to the World Health Organization. If the efforts to contain...

Dec 9, 2014

US Airports Screened 2,000 Travelers for Ebola, But Found No Cases

Nearly 2,000 travelers from West Africa who arrived at five U.S. airports over a recent one-month period were screened for Ebola, but the screenings did not reveal any of these people to actually have the disease, according to a new report. The report from the Centers for Disease Control and...

Dec 12, 2014

Ebola Survivors Face Hardships, But New Programs Help

Ebola survivors in West Africa are often shunned by their communities, and they have few possessions because many of their personal belongings are destroyed to prevent the disease from spreading. But several organizations are working to help Ebola survivors make the transition back into their communities — for example, by...

Dec 22, 2014

Ebola Epidemic Continues in Africa, Despite Progress in Some Places

The Ebola epidemic in West Africa has undergone a dramatic change in the past several months, U.S. health officials said today (Dec. 22). There has been real progress in the fight against the deadly viral disease, but eliminating Ebola will require much more work, Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the...

Dec 27, 2014

Is Ebola Diverting Resources from Other Neglected Diseases?

This article was originally published on The Conversation. The publication contributed this article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Thanks in part to the Ebola crisis, neglected diseases have grabbed the world’s attention. These diseases predominantly affect developing nations with limited resources to fund research, pay for treatments,...

Dec 29, 2014

Scottish Health Care Worker Diagnosed With Ebola

A health care worker in Scotland has been diagnosed with Ebola, shortly after returning from treating patients with the disease in Sierra Leone, according to the National Health Service of the United Kingdom. The patient is the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola in the United Kingdom since an...

Dec 30, 2014

Bat-Filled Tree May Have Been Source of Current Ebola Outbreak

In the small village of Meliandou, in Guinea, stood a tall, hollowed-out tree where children loved to play. But thousands of bats lived in the tree, and one toddler — a 2-year-old named Emile Ouamouno — may have contracted Ebola from playing there. Emile, who died in December 2013, was...