Outbreaks

More cases have been reported this year than in all of 1992, when the country had its last big outbreak.

A woman tends to her daughter, age six, who is about to receive a measles vaccine shot at a health clinic on May 15th, 2019, in Kiev, Ukraine.

Plus, why Trump's turnaround on vaccine safety was very late—but still helpful.

Public-health experts say the measure is unusual, but necessary.

The state would be the fourth to ban non-medical vaccine exemptions, a policy change lauded as one of the surest ways to avoid an outbreak.

As of this week, the World Health Organization has recorded 127 confirmed cases and 87 confirmed or probable deaths in the DRC due to the virus.

People carry a cross for a grave on August 23rd, 2018, in Mangina, North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

A nurse working with the World Health Organization shows a bottle containing Ebola vaccine at the town hall of Mbandaka on May 21st, 2018, during the launch of the Ebola vaccination campaign.

A worker at an emergency cholera treatment center gets her shoes disinfected in Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on January 18th, 2018.

The most cost-effective approach to fighting disease outbreaks may depend on how society and the media respond, a new study finds.

It's not over just because there aren't any more new cases, a new study shows.