Health Why Health Workers In The Ebola Hot Zone Are Threatening To Strike Threats and attacks have become a way of life — even for staff at regular hospitals. For the simple act of referring patients to Ebola treatment centers, they have become targets. Nurith Aizenman Play AudioListen 4 mins
Science Don't Panic: Stories Of Coping Amidst Chaos Chaos is a part of all of our lives. Sometimes we try to control it. And other times, we just have to live with it. On this week's Hidden Brain, we bring you two of our favorite stories about coping with chaos. They come from our 2016 episodes "Panic in the Streets" and "Embrace the Chaos." Shankar Vedantam Chris Benderev Tara Boyle Renee Klahr Play AudioListen 52 mins
Health Why Doctors Without Borders Is Pulling Out Of The Ebola Epicenter In Congo After two fiery attacks on its treatment centers in Democratic Republic of the Congo, the medical charity is putting its operations there on hold — and rethinking its role. Nurith Aizenman Play AudioListen 3 mins
Health Why Does Ebola Keep Spreading In Congo? Here's A Major Clue Responders are zeroing in on an important source of new infections in the towns of Katwa and Butembo. Nurith Aizenman Play AudioListen 4 mins
Health The Health Of The World In 2018, By The Numbers There is cause for optimism — and for despair. One statistic is so distressing that the Red Cross calls it "a hideous milestone for the 21st century." Susan Brink
Health Do You Know The Right Way To Wash Your Hands? Watch This Video Aimed At Halting Ebola There are six separate steps in the video from Democratic Republic of the Congo — and that's not counting "abundantly" wetting your hands and lathering up. Nurith Aizenman
Health An Angry Crowd, A Burial Team's Escape: Scenes From The Ebola Outbreak Health workers and other responders are threatened as often as three or four times a week in Democratic Republic of the Congo. And efforts to bring security are proving difficult. Nurith Aizenman
Health How Worried Should We Be About Ebola In Congo? WHO upgraded the risk factor to "very high" in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Yet officials point to reasons for cautious optimism. NPR Staff Play AudioListen 4 mins
Health Violent Ebola Zone Calls For Creative Strategies There's another Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo — in a part of the country racked by violent conflict. So how do you get help to people in areas too dangerous to visit? NPR Staff
Photos: Lewis-McChord's Ebola Monitoring Camp Winds Down For Second Wave Of Soldiers The 100 soldiers from Fort Carson’s 615th Engineer Company have their temperature recorded twice a day. They’ve been lining up for these temperature... Patricia Murphy Play AudioListen 3 mins
