Ebola: What You Need to Know

Health authorities in Spain have confirmed that a health worker at the Carlos III Hospital in Madrid, Spain has been infected with the Ebola virus.

All last week CDC officials reiterated their conclusion—based on nearly 40 years worth of successfully containing past outbreaks—that you cannot catch the Ebola virus from people who are infected unless they have already begun suffering a fever or started showing other signs of illnesses.

Howard University Hospital in D.C. is the latest facility to report a suspect patient in isolation, but so far only a Dallas visitor has tested positive for the virus

Mathematical epidemiology projects more than half of the Ebola infectious will have to be isolated to prevent the disease's long growth tail

Health officials scale-up efforts to trace infected traveler’s contacts

Dallas hospital is treating traveler from Liberia

What would it take to hijack the virus in west Africa and turn it into a bioterror agent elsewhere?

Web sites devour piles of disease-related information but still keep a person in the loop to help make sense of the data glut

Can beefed up U.S. aid stem the tide of Ebola deaths in the months ahead?

The airplane transport isolators being used to fly Ebola patients for treatment have origins in the 2003 SARS epidemic

President Obama has pledged up to 3,000 personnel as well to stem the outbreak in West Africa

Transporting patients to care facilities may be exacerbating the Ebola epidemic in west Africa

Why do some viruses go airborne? Will the pathogen causing the west African outbreak be one of them?

The newly developed device improves survival in rats after severe infections with everything from E. coli to Ebola

A panel of experts from the World Health Organization says blood plasma and whole blood transfusions should have priority—for now

The virus remains unchecked because of the lack of a global effort to implement emergency public-health measures
 

By pinpointing the virus’s source, a new report validates steps health care workers are taking to battle the disease
 

Techniques used in the U.S. to treat symptoms and subdue the virus in patients could work overseas, Bruce Ribner says

The animals were spared from Marburg virus even when treated three days after infection

Supplies are limited, and deciding who gets treatment is difficult

The World Health Organization's announcement could shift the focus to basic public health

It will take international support and winning the public’s trust to stop the Ebola outbreak in west Africa

Although the virus is exerting a heavy toll in West Africa, it does not spread easily

There is little risk of the deadly virus spreading to the U.S., experts say