Ebola outbreak

Children in Sierra Leone returned to schools on Tuesday after staying at home for nine months because of the Ebola outbreak

NEW YORK—Fighting off Ebola was a costly endeavor. That’s why we should get the feds to reimburse us, argued Sen. Chuck Schumer Sunday.

Many beds are empty at newly opened Ebola treatment units in Liberia’s urban centers because the outbreak is now flaring in more rural parts of the country. In Sierra Leone’s capital, there aren’t enough treatment units as the epidemic spreads there.

Remembering those who have died in the world’s deadliest Ebola outbreak, Liberia’s president opened one of the country’s largest Ebola treatment centers in Monrovia on Friday amid hopes that the disease is finally on the decline in this West African country.

A nurse made good on her promise to defy Maine’s voluntary quarantine for health care workers who treated Ebola patients in West Africa by biking away with her boyfriend from her Fort Kent house Thursday morning.

NEW YORK—New York City and the state government have created a program to offer financial security to health workers returning from West Africa, designed to promote Ebola relief efforts in spite of a rigorous quarantine policy that could deter humanitarian aid.

BRUSSELS–European leaders agreed to $1.26 billion in funding to fight Ebola in West Africa by the end of the year at an EU summit in Brussels on Friday. Over the weekend the first $254 million was put at the disposal of international efforts, including almost $30.5 million toward the development of a vaccine.

NEW YORK—It was a stressful Monday for Della Brown from the Bronx. Right when she got back from work, she learned a 5-year-old boy from next door was taken to the hospital with Ebola-like symptoms.

China has started screening for body temperature at the entrance to the Canton Fair, the nation’s largest trade expo, which takes place in the southern province of Guangdong.

New Jersey officials say a nurse who was quarantined after working in West Africa with Ebola patients is being released.

EW YORK—Four days after the first Ebola outbreak in New York, a dispute has emerged over how to deal with travelers from the three affected West African countries.

Henry Boley left Liberia to attend a conference in Nigeria just days after his twins were born. Now, weeks later, he can’t get home. Amanda Johnson, a 50-year-old Liberian living in Ghana, awaits her fiance’s departure from their home country for their wedding, but refuses to return home because of Ebola.

BRUSSELS—During a two-hour discussion in Luxembourg on Monday, foreign ministers of the European Council agreed to establish a mechanism that will guarantee that health workers from the European Union can be evacuated from West Africa if they fall ill.