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U.S. Global Health Strategy Jeopardizes Prevention of Pandemics, Experts Warn

The Trump administration has been negotiating agreements with dozens of individual countries. Public health experts say a global agreement would be far more effective.

Β© Arlette Bashizi for The New York Times

A burial crew carrying the body of a possible Ebola patient in the Ituri province of the Democratic Republic of Congo in August.

British Doctor Infected With Ebola While Working on Outbreak Evacuated to U.K.

The government said the risk to the British public from the disease was low. The current outbreak in Africa has spread widely across the continent, killing more than 5,000 people.

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The Royal Free Hospital in London, which one medical expert noted had a specialist isolation unit to deal with Ebola cases.

An 80-Cent Plastic Pouch Is Saving Thousands of Women From Dying in Childbirth

The maternal drape, as it is called, is helping to solve one of the world’s most intractable health problems.

Β© Taiwo Aina for The New York Times

Husaina Balarabe with her newborn, Aabid, in the maternity ward at the Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital in Kano, Nigeria, in September.

Nigeria’s Ebola Patient Evacuated as Investigators Press for Answers

More than a week after the first case was reported in Africa’s most populous nation, pressing questions about the infection remain unanswered.

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A photograph released by the Geneva University Hospitals shows paramedics carrying from a helicopter a woman who had been diagnosed with Ebola following her flight from Nigeria, on Monday.
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