Ebola

Five Years Ago A Lawmaker Tried — And Failed — To Prepare Texas For A Pandemic. What Happened?

Throughout the COVID-19 outbreak in Texas, healthcare workers have expressed concerns about the availability of personal protective equipment (PPE). Local…

Bioscience-Medicine

San Antonio Researcher Makes Discovery That Could Lead To Ebola Treatment

Bonnie Petrie

Updated Jan. 18.While public health experts are working furiously to quell the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, researchers in San…

Bioscience-Medicine

San Antonio Researchers: Can Malaria Help Fight Off Ebola?

Bonnie Petrie

It's a tale of two diseases. Researchers at the Texas Biomedical Research Institute are trying to figure out if being infected with malaria can help a…

A health care worker wears virus protective gear at an Ebola treatment center in Bikoro, Democratic Republic of the Congo. The country's latest outbreak has spread to a city of more than 1 million people.

Spread Of Ebola In Congo A 'Game Changer'

Amy Held

A new case of the often deadly virus was confirmed in a densely populated regional capital city. Now health workers are rushing to stem its spread.

The medical community has reason for cautious optimism in fighting the Ebola virus in Democratic Republic of the Congo: A new vaccine has been created since the 2014 West Africa outbreak.

At Least 1 Person Dies Of Ebola In Democratic Republic Of The Congo

Colin Dwyer

The World Health Organization says one case was confirmed and nine people total were suspected of contracting the virus. The cases were "in a very remote zone ... so we are a little lucky," WHO says.

A worker stands near dividers intended to separate patients in an Ebola treatment facility under construction in the Port Loko district of Sierra Leone in 2014.

What If You Had Ebola And Didn't Even Know It?

Jason Beaubien

Viruses can hit people in different ways, with symptoms ranging from minimal to severe. A doctor wanted to know if that was true for Ebola as well.

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Infectious-Disease Workshop Held In New Braunfels

Steve Short

After a case of Ebola in North Texas in 2014 took the life of a man and lead to the infection of two nurses who cared for him, the Texas Department of…

A corpse has tested positive for the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone, a day after world health officials declared West Africa free of the disease. On Friday, people pass a banner reading "STOP EBOLA" — part of Sierra Leone's health campaign — in the city of Freetown.

Sierra Leone Reports Ebola Death, 1 Day After Outbreak Declared Over

Bill Chappell

On Thursday, the World Health Organization announced that West Africa was Ebola-free. The virus has been found to survive in people for nine months or more.

A unidentified family member (right) of a 10-year-old boy that contracted Ebola has her temperature measured by a health worker outside an Ebola clinic on the outskirts of Monrovia, Liberia, on Nov. 20. Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone have now gone 42 days without a single reported case of Ebola.

West Africa Is Finally Declared Ebola-Free — For Now

Camila Domonoske

For the first time since the most recent Ebola outbreak began, Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone have each reported zero cases of Ebola for 42 days in a row. But the risk of small flare-ups remains.

Liberia's ELWA hospital is still the go-to clinic for possible Ebola cases. Above, a woman suspected of carrying the disease was quarantined in July.

Ebola Returns To Liberia, But It's Not Clear How The 10-Year-Old Got It

Jason Beaubien

A young boy has been confirmed as an Ebola case. The World Health Organization is trying to figure out the chain of transmission.