Ebola

In this photo taken Thursday, May 31, 2018, Congolese health officials prepare to disinfect people and buildings at the general referral hospital in Mbandaka, Congo. For the first time since the Ebola virus was identified more than 40 years ago, a vaccine has been dispatched to front line health workers in an attempt to combat the epidemic from the onset.

Medical teams battle Ebola outbreak in Congo with experimental vaccine

Kimberly Leonard · August 9, 2018 8:10 am

A healthcare worker from the World Health Organization gives an Ebola vaccination to a front line aid worker who will then go to vaccinate people who might potentially have the virus, in Mbandaka, Congo.

Congo likely to use experimental vaccine on latest Ebola outbreak

Kimberly Leonard · August 3, 2018 1:30 pm

In this photo taken Thursday, May 31, 2018, Congolese health officials prepare to disinfect people and buildings at the general referral hospital in Mbandaka, Congo. For the first time since the Ebola virus was identified more than 40 years ago, a vaccine has been dispatched to front line health workers in an attempt to combat the epidemic from the onset.

Ebola returns to Congo just one week after outbreak declared over

Kimberly Leonard · August 1, 2018 3:31 pm

In this photo taken Wednesday, May 30, 2018, a healthcare worker from the World Health Organization prepares vaccines to give to front line aid workers, in Mbandaka, Congo. For the first time since the Ebola virus was identified more than 40 years ago, a vaccine has been dispatched to front line health workers in an attempt to combat the epidemic from the onset.

Ebola outbreak in Congo officially over

Kimberly Leonard · July 24, 2018 2:26 pm

In this photo taken Saturday, June 2, 2018, a health worker checks people's temperatures as they disembark a plane at the airport in Kinshasa, Congo. Hundreds are being vaccinated in Congo's deadly Ebola outbreak but busy taxi drivers who might be ferrying the sick in Mbandaka, an infected city of more than 1 million, argue they are on the front lines as well and should receive the vaccine.

Health officials contain Ebola’s spread in the Congo

Kimberly Leonard · July 6, 2018 8:51 pm

FDA sues soap company that claims to protect against Ebola

Kimberly Leonard · June 6, 2018 7:10 pm

A health worker prepares an Ebola vaccine to administer to health workers during a vaccination campaign in Mbandaka, Congo Monday, May 21, 2018. Congo's health minister says a nurse has died from Ebola in Bikoro, the rural northwestern town where the outbreak began, as the country begins a vaccination campaign.

Congo tests Ebola treatment as death toll rises

Kimberly Leonard · June 6, 2018 2:29 pm

The World Health Organization confirmed that a laboratory-confirmed case of Ebola emerged in the central African country of Congo. (AP)

Trump scraps plan to cut Ebola funds

Kimberly Leonard · June 5, 2018 7:15 pm

FILE- In this file photo taken on Friday, Jan. 15, 2016, people pass a banner reading 'STOP EBOLA' forming part of Sierra Leone's Ebola free campaign in the city of Freetown, Sierra Leone. A second case of Ebola emerged Thursday Jan. 21, 2016 in Sierra Leone after health officials thought the epidemic was over, with a close relative of the first victim testing positive for the virus that has killed more than 11,000 people, authorities said.

Senate committee advances pandemics bill as Ebola threat rises

Kimberly Leonard · May 23, 2018 3:24 pm

Alex Azar is a former health official at HHS, where he served as deputy secretary under former President George W. Bush. He also is a former top executive for pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

US to contribute additional $7 million to Congo’s Ebola fight

Kimberly Leonard · May 22, 2018 1:57 pm

In this photo taken Monday, May 14, 2018, members of a Red Cross team don protective clothing before heading out to look for suspected victims of Ebola, in Mbandaka, Congo. Congo's Ebola outbreak has spread to Mbandaka, a crossroads city of more than 1 million people, in a troubling turn that marks one of the few times the vast, impoverished country has encountered the lethal virus in an urban area.

Health officials begin using experimental vaccine to fight Ebola in Congo

Kimberly Leonard · May 21, 2018 2:18 pm

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization, left, and Robert Steffen, WHO chairman of the Emergency Committee on Ebola, attend a press conference at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.

WHO finds Ebola outbreak not an emergency situation yet

Robert King · May 18, 2018 4:03 pm