Global Health

There's no escaping Ebola in West Africa. Here, a seller of bananas walks past a slogan painted on a wall in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia.

Live at 12:30 PM (ET): What's Next With The Ebola Disaster?

12:01pm October 06, 2014

by NPR Staff

How did a single case of Ebola in Guinea turn into a crisis that has now reached the United States? Four experts join NPR in a webcast to talk about how this happened — and how to stop further spread.

Seteng Horo with her son Abhishek, 4, in their two-room mud hut. Seteng is married to Kunwar. The couple has two children. Their daughter is 6.

Abortion In India Is Legal Yet Women Are Still Dying

11:46am October 06, 2014

by Rhitu Chatterjee

A poor woman in India has many bad choices when it comes to abortion: a do-it-yourself home treatment, an unqualified midwife, a quack medicine man. Seteng Horo was fortunate to find a safer option.

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Adrian Hill, director of the Jenner Institute and chief investigator of the trials with an Ebola vaccine his organization developed, holds a vial of the vaccine.

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Ebola Researchers Have A Radical Idea: Rush A Vaccine Into The Field

10:01am October 06, 2014

by Caitlin Dickerson

Traditional methods for containing the Ebola outbreak aren't working fast enough. So some scientists want to bypass the typical trial phases and bring new vaccines directly to people at risk.

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Ebola Continues Its Baleful Advance In Liberia

1:51pm October 05, 2014

Ebola continues to defy international borders, no matter what precautions are taken. Correspondent Jason Beaubien talks with NPR's Ari Shapiro about the deteriorating situation in Liberia.

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An electron micrograph photo of the Ebola virus, provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.

Hope For Ebola Treatment Found In Survivors

12:32pm October 05, 2014

by Lauren Hodges

Health officials are looking to those who have recovered from Ebola to treat new cases. The World Health Organization hopes to find antibodies in the blood of people who have fought off the virus.

Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins, right, escorts people who were at the apartment unit where Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian citizen diagnosed with the Ebola virus, had been staying. Jenkins used his car to drive the people to a new place to stay in Dallas

Dallas Ebola Case: Experts Say 9 People At Highest Risk Of Contact

2:37pm October 04, 2014

by Bill Chappell

Health experts are "fairly certain" that nine people had enough direct contact with an Ebola patient that they could potentially have been infected. None of them have shown symptoms, the CDC says.

Why Ebola Is Not A Threat To The U.S.

1:50pm October 04, 2014

Ebola has come to the United States. NPR's Scott Simon talks to physician and infectious disease specialist Kent Sepkowitz about the CDC's handling of Ebola, and why Americans are in little danger.

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Dr. Joseph Fair, an American virologist, has worked in Sierra Leone for more than a decade.

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A Virologist Takes You Inside The Ebola Protective Suit

7:03am October 04, 2014

by NPR Staff

Virus hunter Joseph Fair speaks about the needs and challenges ahead for containing the outbreak, and why he thinks things will get worse before they get better.

A girl cries outside an Ebola treatment center in Monrovia in late September. Both her parents died in the Ebola outbreak.

After Losing Parents To Ebola, Orphans Face Stigma

6:41pm October 03, 2014

by Rae Ellen Bichell

UNICEF estimates that thousands of children in West Africa have lost parents to Ebola. Convincing communities to accept and care for these children isn't always easy.

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A private security guard patrols the apartment building in Dallas where Ebola patient Thomas Duncan stayed. The family that hosted him is quarantined.

Here's How An Ebola Quarantine Works In The U.S.

4:37pm October 03, 2014

by Alison Bruzek

The family that hosted Ebola patient Thomas Duncan in Dallas is under quarantine. It's a time-honored public health tool to stop the spread of infectious disease. But it can be abused.