White House hopefuls target Trump on coronavirus response
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Democratic White House hopefuls are seizing on President Donald Trump’s delayed response to the ...
White House unveils $2.5B emergency coronavirus plan
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House on Monday sent lawmakers an urgent $2.5 billion plan to address the deadly coronavirus...
UN: Congo’s Ebola outbreak slows but still global emergency
GENEVA — The World Health Organization said although signs are now “extremely positive” in Congo that the Ebola outbreak is winding down, the epidemic...
WHO chief ‘very encouraged’ by dip in Congo Ebola cases
DAKAR, Senegal — The head of the World Health Organization said Tuesday that experts are "very encouraged” after only three new cases of Ebola have be...
Doctor’s death highlights dangers on front lines of outbreak
LONDON — The death of a doctor who issued an early warning about the new virus in China represents a grim reminder that the first health care workers ...
Experts scramble, but new virus vaccine may not come in time
WASHINGTON — The flu-like virus that exploded from China has researchers worldwide once again scrambling to find a vaccine against a surprise health t...
In virus outbreak, fretting over a name that might go viral
NEW YORK — West Nile virus, Lyme disease, Ebola virus.
UN health agency tackles misinformation over virus outbreak
GENEVA — The World Health Organization chief has traveled a dozen times to monitor the Ebola response in violence-marred eastern Congo. But when he pl...
Wary of irking China, Trump offers rosy take on virus threat
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump had plenty to talk about during his latest big campaign rally, regaling a friendly crowd in New Jersey with his th...
UN agency: China virus ‘too early’ for emergency declaration
LONDON — A viral illness in China that has sickened hundreds of people and prompted Chinese authorities to effectively shut down at least three cities...
The Latest: WHO says China virus not global health emergency
LONDON — The Latest on the outbreak of the new coronavirus in China (all times local):
China virus outbreak may wallop economy, financial markets
BANGKOK — News that a new virus that has afflicted hundreds of people in central China can spread between humans has rattled financial markets and rai...
US to screen airline passengers from China for new illness
NEW YORK — Three U.S. airports will screen passengers arriving from central China for a new virus that has sickened dozens, killed two and prompted wo...
Africa starts 2020 battling extremism, Ebola and hunger
JOHANNESBURG — A tragic airline crash with far-reaching consequences, cataclysmic cyclones that may be a harbinger of the future, the death of an Afri...
Rebel attacks in eastern Congo kill several Ebola responders
BENI, Congo — Rebels killed four Ebola response workers in an overnight ambush in eastern Congo, the World Health Organization said Thursday, warning ...
Ebola responders on ‘lockdown’ after Congo city’s unrest
JOHANNESBURG — The World Health Organization says Ebola responders are on lockdown in the eastern Congo city of Beni after angry residents attacked a ...