Questions remain over Ebola patient who travelled across three nations undetected

Fresh details reveal how the 40-year-old businessman flew and crossed regional borders while seriously ill.

Kenya prepared for Ebola. It still slipped through — a warning of wider cross-border spread

Kenya had spent months preparing for Ebola, one of the world’s deadliest viral diseases, screening hundreds of thousands of ...

Kenya Ebola case exposes gaps in border screenings

By the time Kenya's first Ebola patient was whisked to a hospital by relatives straight after landing at Nairobi airport, he ...

Ebola creates new hot spots in Congo as responders describe ‘chaotic’ response

The Ebola outbreak in Congo is creating new hot spots where there’s little to no support for patients, responders and ...

Ebola death toll in Congo tops 4,000 in fastest-growing outbreak of the disease on record

Congo's Ebola outbreak has now recorded more than 4,000 deaths, authorities said, in what has become the fastest-growing ...

Kenya Records Ebola Case for First Time

The authorities said that the virus had been diagnosed in a man arriving from the Democratic Republic of Congo and that they ...
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From illness to hope: mental health at the heart of the Ebola response

When I was told I had Ebola, I already felt like a dead man,” recalls Jean Vianney, 44, who has now recovered from the ...
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Why single Ebola death in Kenya has sparked fears of wider African spread

According to the WHO, the Kenyan patient first got sick in the DRC, where the patient had been living, and was treated there.

‘No Help’: Aid Arrived Too Late as Ebola Spread in a Congolese Town

What happened in Mangala, where residents were left with little outside support, helps explain how this outbreak became the worst seen in the Democratic Republic of Congo.