Ivory Coast

Family and friends are telling the life story of Thomas Eric Duncan, the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the United States. The 42-year-old died in a Dallas hospital Wednesday morning. Duncan grew up next to a leper colony in Liberia and was forced to flee by civil war before returning years later to find the country ravaged by Ebola...

The head of the World Health Organization says the Ebola outbreak in West Africa is out of control. WHO chief Margaret Chan warned today that the outbreak is moving faster than international efforts to control it. Chan met today with the presidents of Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Ivory Coast to talk about the worst outbreak in the history of the disease...