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Thousands of people are to be injected with two experimental Ebola vaccines in trials in West Africa within a couple of weeks, and a Baltimore biotechnology company is launching a human trial of its own candidate in June, as scientists and public health officials work to end the deadly epidemic.

Mutations to the Ebola virus could make some experimental treatments ineffective, according to researchers at Fort Detrick.

As I work with dozens of donors and partners on the Ebola frontlines in Liberia, it's difficult to accept news reports of rampant disorganization, poor planning and infighting. These dispatches may reflect the initial challenges of pooling our resources in the most productive ways, but they have not told the entire story of the work taking place in Liberia in the battle against Ebola. My colleagues and I are working in harmony with one another and with Liberia's Ministry of Health. What's more,

For the past several years, workers at Gilchrist Hospice Care have raised about $5,000 for some counterparts in Tanzania to give their overwhelmed center a boost. But when U.S. government aid ran out in 2009 for many African hospices, the Baltimore area caregivers made a decision.

In 2003, Ebola virus killed around 5,500 gorillas in the Lossi Sanctuary of the Republic of Congo and reduced its population there by over 90 percent — the virus' deadliest incursion in any species until the current outbreak in West Africa. That gorilla outbreak, however, was just the next step along a trajectory that appeared to begin in 1976, when Ebola was first diagnosed in humans, but which had actually been underway for decades due to the convergence of several insidious forces that

As Pastor Tom Richard, of Meadow Branch Church of the Brethren, in Westminster, prepared to introduce the afternoon's speaker, Musa Mambula, he said though the crowd in attendance was small, he was happy people chose to come out.

When the Army scientists from Aberdeen Proving Ground arrived in Liberia six weeks ago, their commander said, it was not uncommon for rural Ebola patients to wait several days for blood test results.

Children bustled through the corridors of an Army Reserve facility just south of the city line Saturday as soldiers gathered for the last family day before some of them head out to West Africa for the military's mission fighting the deadly Ebola outbreak.

An American nurse recently exposed to Ebola while volunteering at a treatment unit in Sierra Leone has been admitted to the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Bethesda sometime Thursday.

An American nurse recently exposed to Ebola while volunteering at a treatment unit in Sierra Leone is expected to be admitted to the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Bethesda sometime Thursday.

If a person came into one of Harford County's two hospitals complaining of Ebola-like symptoms, would hospital staff be prepared to properly deal with the situation, while also calming the fears of other patients or visitors who might be present?

After touring a National Institutes of Health lab where scientists are developing a leading Ebola vaccine candidate, President Barack Obama on Tuesday called on Congress to approve $6 billion for relief efforts in Africa and research in the U.S.

The president should focus on helping African Americans rather than immigrants, writes Cal Thomas.

Communication is vital to stemming the spread of Ebola

More than 100 Army Reservists from Maryland are heading to West Africa in the spring to join U.S. efforts to tackle the deadly Ebola outbreak.

Johns Hopkins researchers say Ebola may not have spread so widely across West Africa if better trust had been in place between communities and public health officials.

A surgeon from Sierra Leone, critically ill with Ebola, was flown to a Nebraska hospital for treatment on Saturday, and is sicker than previous patients treated in the United States, medical officials said.

Dr. Martin Salia, whose family lives in Maryland, contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone and could be flown to Nebraska for treatment.

As the U.S. government has stepped up its efforts against the deadly spread of Ebola in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea in West Africa in recent months, federal and military personnel in and around Maryland have joined the fight

WASHINGTON — Federal health officials told Congress on Wednesday that the Obama administration's request for $6.2 billion in emergency funding is critical to fighting the spread of Ebola in West Africa and there were indications the proposal could win broad bipartisan support.

Hugh F. Moore was shot down over Papua New Guinea on April 10, 1944. His remains and those of his fellow crewmen were finally recovered and identified, in time for him to be buried on Veterans Day 2014.

The U.S. will never persuade General el-Sissi to embrace democracy or end the endemic corruption that enriches Egyptian generals. But we can use the leverage our huge aid payments provide to protect some space for independent voices.

Wakefield Valley Bible Church will have a Bible conference at 7 p.m. Nov. 17, sponsored by the Fellowship of Bible Churches, with the Rev. Steve Trostle, a missionary to Cape Town, South Africa, to speak on "The Mission of the Church."

While Liberia and other West African countries are seven months into the largest and most complex Ebola outbreak in history, several Carroll County-based organizations are on the front lines of the battle to control the outbreak.

State health officials are monitoring about 100 people who have traveled from Ebola-stricken countries but won't disclose any more information about their condition unless someone tests positive for the deadly virus under a new policy.

A cemetery located at Hollins Ferry Road and Third Avenue in Lansdowne, filled with thousands of gravestone markers and headstones, often goes unnoticed by Lansdowne residents and passersby.

The fight against the spread of the Ebola virus is now being fought in doctors' offices and urgent-care clinics in Maryland and across the country. Receptionists and doctors are now often asking patients questions about travel and other risks to pinpoint if there's a chance that the patient has been exposed to the often-deadly virus

People, groups offer aid and supplies to West African countries battling deadly Ebola virus.

Publicity from Ebola may have spurred an uptick in influenza vaccination

Possible ebola patient currently in isolation at University of Maryland Medical Center

Laurel Regional Hospital officials say they are following the state's Ebola protocol and making sure they are prepared to deal with any cases according to state and federal guidelines.

A team of scientists from Aberdeen Proving Ground's 1st Area Medical Laboratory is deploying to Liberia for a year to test samples for Ebola.

Travelers to Maryland from three West African countries where Ebola continues to spread could be quarantined at home or barred from public transit depending on their risk of exposure to the deadly virus, according to guidelines Gov. Martin O'Malley announced Monday.

Md. officials have put in place a realistic and measured response to the threat posed to health care workers and the public

Ebola outbreak requires strict quarantine of West African nations

Maryland is home to one of the nation's largest populations of West Africans, and the community is closely watching the Ebola outbreak in their home countries and looking for ways to help.

Federal health regulators have tapped Johns Hopkins Medicine to lead development of a Web-based tool to train doctors, nurses and other health care workers on the protocols they should follow when treating patients with, or at risk of contracting, Ebola.

There are simple measures each of us — and the medical community — can take to protect the U.S. from an Ebola epidemic.

Students at small liberal arts colleges may graduate without ever having had a substantive conversation with a person of another race.

Ebola linked to bush meat

Ebola is not a crisis in the U.S., but the media hype is.

Byme Taylor, who moved to Laurel five years ago, lost several relatives, including his 31-year-old brother, a Liberian minister, to the Ebola virus. He said his brother, the Rev. Hezekiah Taylor, who was living with a younger sister, was set to get married in December and had planned to visit Taylor and his family here that same month.

On the question of the academic boycott of Israel, Hopkins offers mere lip service to academic freedom.