What does USAID do to prevent the spread of Ebola and other highly infectious and dangerous diseases overseas? So you’ve got ...

In her new book, A History of the World in Six Plagues, Edna Bonhomme describes a 2014 epidemic that decimated a neighborhood ...

The foreign aid program has been one of the country's best defenses against emerging infectious diseases. Without it, we are ...

In the wake of USAID’s shuttering by billionaire Elon Musk and President Donald Trump, those familiar with USAID’s work have ...

U.S.-funded organizations helped keep dangerous pathogens in check around the world. Now many safeguards are gone, and ...

The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency designated seven countries in Africa, including Uganda, as quarantine management areas. The agency announced on the 26th that it would designate ...

In 2014, while treating Ebola patients in Guinea ... Understand how this will work at a practical level: Until recently, countries had compelling reasons to report outbreaks, even if such ...

Musk, who is not a Cabinet member or an elected official, said one such mistake was “accidentally” cancelling Ebola prevention while cutting U.S. development aid agency USAID. “I think we all want ...

First, they fired the people who look after the nuclear bombs, then had to hurriedly find where they went and hire them back.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Jeremy Konyndyk, who oversaw USAID's response to the 2014 Ebola outbreak, if cuts to the agency leave the U.S. more vulnerable to infectious disease.

So we restored the Ebola prevention immediately ... of the U.S. government’s humanitarian assistance to developing countries and countries in crisis. U.S. President Donald Trump’s ...