Only the Right Tests Can Stop This Ebola Outbreak. Congo Has Hardly Any.
A chronic lack of investment in development of better tests has left clinicians blind and allows deadly viruses to spread unchecked.
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Inside the Ebola Outbreak
We discuss the epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Inside the Ebola Outbreak
A Times correspondent is reporting from the Ebola epicenter in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Here’s what he saw.
Inside the Ebola Epicenter, the Virus Rages With Little to Stop It
A remote gold mining town is under siege, as medical workers struggle to beat back a surge of deaths and infections.
Quarantines
Quarantine Unit for Americans Exposed to Ebola to Open in Kenya Friday
But U.S. officials are still working to find centers in Europe to accept Americans who need advanced treatment, seen as critical to improving odds of survival.
Disease Rates
The Viruses Causing New Outbreaks Are Much Less Familiar to Science
The types of Ebola and hantavirus worrying officials are very different from the species identified decades ago, raising new questions about how to respond.
Quarantines
Trump Administration to Send Americans Exposed to Ebola to Kenya
In past outbreaks, Americans exposed to the virus were sent home to be treated in state-of-the-art facilities. The Trump administration has already flown some U.S. citizens to Europe for treatment.
Epidemics
Are We Pandemic Ready?
Hantavirus and Ebola are reminders that outbreaks are inevitable, and that the world must work together to contain them and prevent the next pandemic.
Ebola Virus
U.S. to Block Entry to More Noncitizens Who May Have Been Exposed to Ebola
The Trump administration announced plans to expand a ban on entering the United States to legal permanent residents who had been in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda or South…
Ebola Virus
Ebola Outbreak Is Unlikely to Become Global Threat, W.H.O. Says
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the World Health Organization’s director general, said the outbreak in central Africa was “not a pandemic emergency.”
Ebola Virus
Ebola Was Identified in Congo Weeks Before W.H.O. Declared an Emergency
Early surveillance and testing failed to identify the rare species of Ebola responsible for the current outbreak. An American doctor is among the confirmed cases.