Ebola Extreme Measures

Sierra Leone lifted quarantine measures imposed at the height of the Ebola epidemic on Friday, as the World Health Organization warned the crisis was still "extremely alarming" despite a drop in new cases.

The infection of two US healthcare workers who cared for a dying Ebola patient in Dallas is challenging assumptions about how to protect Western medical workers who perform advanced, life-saving procedures that may increase their risk of exposure.

The use of an experimental drug to treat two Americans diagnosed with Ebola is raising ethical questions about who gets first access to unproven new therapies for the deadly disease. But some health experts fear that debate over extremely limited doses will distract from tried-and-true measures to curb the growing outbreak, like more rapidly identi...

Sierra Leone lifted quarantine measures imposed at the height of the Ebola epidemic on Friday, as the World Health Organization warned the crisis was still "extremely alarming" despite a drop in new cases.

The infection of two US healthcare workers who cared for a dying Ebola patient in Dallas is challenging assumptions about how to protect Western medical workers who perform advanced, life-saving procedures that may increase their risk of exposure.

The use of an experimental drug to treat two Americans diagnosed with Ebola is raising ethical questions about who gets first access to unproven new therapies for the deadly disease. But some health experts fear that debate over extremely limited doses will distract from tried-and-true measures to curb the growing outbreak, like more rapidly identi...