Boys show off their four-legged friends at a rabies vaccination drive set up by the Serengeti Health Initiative in the Bariadi District of Tanzania. Anna Czupryna/Courtesy of Serengeti Health Initiative hide caption
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Tuesday
Liberian physician Martha Zarway continues work in a temporary clinic while her original facility is disinfected. Tommy Trenchard for NPR hide caption
Martha Zarway Of Monrovia: 'I'm A Doctor, So We Can't Run Away'
Sunday
Abortions are legal in India. But many are performed by traditional midwives, called dais. Sometimes a dai rubs herbs on a woman's stomach or gives her plants to eat. Poulomi Basu for NPR hide caption
Friday
Bill Clinton presented the million-dollar Hult Prize to a team of business school graduates from India. Mark Von Holden/AP hide caption
Five ambulances, donated by the U.S. to help combat Ebola, are lined up after a ceremony attended by Sierra Leone's president, Ernest Bai Koroma, in Freetown on Sept. 10. Michael Duff/AP hide caption
Promised Help To Fight Ebola Arriving At 'Speed Of A Turtle'
Saturday
Dance therapy? Mamadee, 11, made everyone happy at the Ebola treatment center with his dancing. He made a full recovery. YouTube hide caption
Friday
Chlorine can stop the Ebola virus. So medical workers disinfect their hands often at the Doctors Without Borders treatment center in Kailahun, Sierra Leone. Carl De Souza/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Inside An Ebola Kit: A Little Chlorine And A Lot Of Hope
Thursday
A Frightening Curve: How Fast Is The Ebola Outbreak Growing?
Tuesday
Workers unload medical supplies to fight the Ebola epidemic from a USAID cargo flight in Harbel, Liberia, in August. John Moore/Getty Images hide caption
Obama To Announce Buildup In U.S. Efforts To Fight Ebola
Monday
Medical workers at the John F. Kennedy Medical Center in Monrovia, Liberia, put on their protective suits before going to the high-risk area of the hospital, where Ebola patients are being treated, Sept. 3. Dominique Faget/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Friday
A mock patient is wheeled in an isolation pod during a drill at the biocontainment unit in the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. Nati Harnik/AP hide caption
Thursday
Dr. Rick Sacra, 51, has been working on and off in Liberia for 15 years. He went back to Monrovia in August to help deliver babies. It's still unknown how he caught Ebola. Courtesy of SIM hide caption
US soldiers have intervened in during natural disasters such as the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. But a disease outbreak is more complicated. SSgt. Chad Chisholm/U.S. Dept. of Defense hide caption
Can The U.S. Military Turn The Tide In The Ebola Outbreak?
Not every business has been hurt by the Ebola epidemic: Stephen Kollie says his newspaper stand is thriving because people are hungry for the latest Ebola information. But many of his usual expatriate customers have left the country, he says. Tommy Trenchard for NPR hide caption
Friday
Ebola has spread through Monrovia, Liberia's congested capital city. John Moore/Getty Images hide caption