Apoorva Mandavilli

Dr. Schwartz, a deputy surgeon general in the first Trump administration, has publicly supported childhood vaccines.

New research also shows that children and high-risk adult populations have been particularly affected.

Eighteen Americans were isolated for weeks in a Nebraska quarantine facility after being exposed to the deadly virus on a cruise ship. Many found the experience traumatic.

The aid workers were on the frontline in the fight against the outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and have shown no symptoms, their employer said.

Dr. Erica Schwartz supports vaccines and is seen as a mainstream choice to lead an agency that has been a target of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s efforts to change federal immunization p...

That is good news for patients, but officials fear it will make controlling the spread of the disease harder.

The State Department is taking over much of the control of global health initiatives, for which critics say the department does not have the expertise.

The health secretary is trying to restart the work of a panel that advises the government on vaccines, after a judge froze its decisions and prevented it from meeting.

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.

Trump administration officials want local health authorities to constantly monitor the 18 passengers for another three weeks, a requirement that far exceeds typical protocols.

But U.S. officials are still working to find centers in Europe to accept Americans who need advanced treatment, seen as critical to improving odds of survival.

In past outbreaks, Americans exposed to the virus were sent home to be treated in state-of-the-art facilities. The Trump administration has already flown some U.S. citizens to Europe for treatment.

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.

Public health experts say the administration’s quarantine orders go beyond what is needed to prevent the U.S. spread of Ebola and hantavirus.

Aid cuts by the Trump administration have shut down crucial disease surveillance networks and medical supply chains in East Africa.

Dozens of deaths and hundreds of infections are suspected, an African agency said. Health experts were alarmed that the outbreak hadn’t been announced sooner.

They were passengers on a plane to Johannesburg with an infected Dutch woman who later died.

The virus is clearly far less contagious than the coronavirus, scientists agree, but they have found cases where it spread among people without direct contact.

The passenger, who had tested positive once in the Canary Islands, was being monitored in a special biocontainment facility in Omaha, until a new test came back negative.

A study of a few patients, to be presented this week, showed promise for a type of therapy that has already cured some blood cancers.