ebola

Despite wearing protective gear, a nurse at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas who helped treat the first US Ebola patient has tested positive for the virus.

Nobel Prizes awarded; transgenerational effects of mitochondrial mutations; fat-targeted gene knockdown; Ebola updates in Spain and U.S.

The first case of Ebola contracted outside of West Africa has the Spanish government scrambling to contain the deadly virus. In the U.S., the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the country has died.

The case marks the first person to contract the virus outside of West Africa.

The man diagnosed with Ebola in a Texas hospital was sent home when he initially sought care.

After nearly two dozen cases of the deadly disease, Africa’s most populous country appears to have stopped the virus in its tracks.

A patient in a Texas hospital has tested positive for the Ebola virus.

The US government releases its policy on so-called dual-use research involving dangerous pathogens that could be used for biological terrorist attacks.

The US Food and Drug Administration gives the green light to deploy an experimental short interfering RNA treatment against Ebola.

The WHO says more than 20,000 people could be infected by November, while the CDC estimates the epidemic will strike some 500,000 people by the end of January.

The United Nations Security Council declares the situation in West Africa a “threat to international peace and security” and calls for even more resources to fight the spread of the Ebola virus.

President Obama plans to send thousands of military personnel to Africa to streamline infectious disease-response efforts.

World Health Organization officials say intervention efforts must be scaled up at least three-fold.

Human trials are now underway.

The United Nations and medical organizations request additional international action on Ebola as the pace of the ongoing epidemic accelerates.

A $42 million US government contract awarded to an experimental Ebola medicine maker aims to accelerate the process of meeting demand for the therapeutic.

The ongoing Ebola outbreak has prompted the National Institutes of Health to accelerate human trials of multiple Ebola vaccines, starting this week.

ZMapp effectively rescued macaques from Ebola in a small trial, but it could be several months before supplies of the drug meet the growing human demand for it.

Many natural phenomena elude our understanding.

September 2014's selection of notable quotes