An Uncertain Path for Americans Exposed to Ebola

Despite long-established procedures for bringing Americans home for monitoring and treatment, the Trump administration has not said that it will allow those at risk of Ebola back into the country.

Despite long-established procedures for bringing Americans home for monitoring and treatment, the Trump administration has not said that it will allow those at risk of Ebola back into the country.

Our chief Africa correspondent, Declan Walsh, reports from the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak on how families, medical workers and local volunteers are grappling with losses of life.

At the center of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the front line is completely overwhelmed.

At the heart of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, health care workers are racing to open new treatment centers and ramp up testing. But after years of war, the deadly virus is just one of many challenges they’re facing.

The court further delayed the Trump administration’s proposed quarantine unit for Americans exposed to the virus. The plan has sparked angry protests in Kenya.

After days of protests, Kenya’s high court effectively delayed the Trump administration’s plan to send American citizens exposed to the Ebola virus to a quarantine unit at Laikipia Air Base in central Kenya.

We discuss the epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

A chronic lack of investment in development of better tests has left clinicians blind and allows deadly viruses to spread unchecked.

The Bundibugyo virus, a little known type, previously had caused just two small outbreaks. Now it’s at the center of a rapidly widening epidemic in Africa.

Our chief Africa correspondent, Declan Walsh, walked inside an Ebola ward where both adults and children were being treated, and where someone had recently died of the disease amid a spiraling outbreak in the region. This is what he saw.

Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director general of the World Health Organization, told The New York Times on a flight to the Democratic Republic of Congo that swift international support was necessary to contain the Ebola virus, which is spreading rapidly there.

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The team, now in Belgium, must isolate there for 21 days or risk being denied permission to come to Houston for the World Cup, an official said.

Kinshasa residents continue to pack markets, bars and public transportation, despite growing international concern about the spread of the virus.

Several hundred people massed at the gates of a hospital to demand the body of a suspected Ebola victim. Violence broke out when staff refused the request.

The Trump administration announced plans to expand a ban on entering the United States to legal permanent residents who had been in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda or South Sudan.

Canada rolls out Ebola screening at major ports of entry as virus spreads in Africa  CP24

Ontario patient tests negative for Ebola, while new border screening measures are in place amid Congo outbreak  Toronto Star

Expert: Canada should be vigilant about Ebola with World Cup coming in two weeks  Toronto Star

People with Ebola pose little risk to public in US, experts say  CIDRAP

What you need to know about the latest Ebola outbreak  CBC

What worries this Ebola survivor about the latest outbreak  CBC

DR Congo Ebola outbreak reaches nearly 750 suspected cases, 177 deaths as area risk upgraded to ‘very high’  CIDRAP

Federal Update on Hantavirus and Ebola Outbreaks – May 22, 2026  CPAC.ca

Ebola survivor calls for compassion as fear, unrest spread during outbreak  CBC

What to know about Ebola, U.S. travel restrictions as outbreak widens  The Washington Post

Ontario traveller tests negative for Ebola; no further cases of hantavirus confirmed in Canada  National Post

Ontario patient tests negative for Ebola, while new border screening measures are in place amid Congo outbreak  CHEK News

Ebola threat now ‘very high’ in DRC  CNN