Health Archive
Archives for September 2014
You can help stop Ebola. Here’s how.
Ebola isn’t going to kill you, or even spread widely in the United States.
The United States is the seventh country with a Ebola patient diagnosed this year, and the only country outside of Africa with a confirmed case.
The best methods we have to contain Ebola are failing, recruiting health-care personnel to work in West Africa is proving difficult, and the health community is worried about the outbreak spiraling further.
A broken global-health innovation system is at the root of this and future outbreaks.
As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention mount an international response to stop the Ebola epidemic, director Thomas Frieden sat down for a frank conversation with Vox about the outbreak.
Dr. Peter Piot has been studying infectious diseases for nearly 40 years. He thinks this outbreak will be the first of many — and we’re not prepared.
As the death toll rises, the country is trying unprecedented measures to contain the virus.
An aid worker and native of Sierra Leone explains why the battle against Ebola has been so difficult and how the outbreak has transformed daily life.
A new survey has troubling findings for outreach efforts.
The yearly gathering of more than three million people presents a public-health challenge during the world’s scariest Ebola epidemic.
A Red Cross burial team were the latest victims of violence against Ebola health workers.
The Ebola outbreak has reached an unprecedented number of victims in the history of the disease.
The group had been working to spread public-health messages in Guinea.