EVD

Trial of Ebola vaccine seen as promising

A recent trial of a vaccine to prevent the Ebola virus disease has taken place in the West African state…

August 5, 2015

Ebola Virus Disease not yet defeated in West Africa

Even though the three states where the Ebola Virus Disease struck last year have been declared free of the epidemic,…

July 26, 2015

Building solidarity with Africa, defeating neo-colonialism

From a talk by Abayomi Azikiwe at the Workers World Party National Conference in New York City, Nov. 15-16. From…

November 29, 2014

Cubans lead global response to Ebola epidemic

Nov. 3 — Cuban health care workers have played a leading role on the African continent for decades. The revolutionary government views…

November 5, 2014

Ebola in U.S.: Struggle over quarantine, stigmatization

Oct. 27 — Epidemiology nurse Kaci Hickox had traveled to Sierra Leone on behalf of Doctors Without Borders to help…

October 31, 2014

Staten Island, N.Y., hosts Ebola Summit

An Ebola Summit held here at the Berta Dreyfus Public School 49 on Oct. 25 brought together a diverse group…

October 29, 2014

Why isn’t there more global aid to fight Ebola?

Oct. 20 — Several United States congressional representatives have called for a ban on travel into the U.S. from the…

October 22, 2014

Ebola & failure of for-profit medical care

Oct. 13 — With the death of Thomas Eric Duncan in the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas on Oct. 8,…

October 13, 2014