Aid convoys arrive as Haiti gauges full extent of disaster
By DAVID McFADDEN and BEN FOX A small airstrip at the edge of town hums with activity. Aid convoys are arriving from the capital, now that some roads washed out…
Infectious diseases
Democrats press talks as showdown vote looms on funding bill
By ANDREW TAYLOR Democrats opened a last-minute push Tuesday for new talks on must-do legislation to prevent the government from shutting down this weekend, fight the Zika virus and help…
Obama, Hill leaders meet ahead of federal funding deadline
By ERICA WERNER President Barack Obama is meeting with the top four leaders of Congress ahead of a month’s-end deadline to fund the government or face a shutdown, and with…
Prince Harry says world must revive urgency in AIDS fight
Prince Harry is warning against complacency in the fight against AIDS, saying inaction has set in as the epidemic has drifted from the headlines and people live longer with the…
Little help for survivors of Central African Republic abuses
By KRISTA LARSON The peacekeepers motioned to the teenage girl weaving through the sprawling camp in the baking afternoon sun selling bananas from a plate atop her head. Soon their…
For Brazil’s rich and poor, disparate response to Zika
By JENNY BARCHFIELD and MAURICIO SAVARESE Two Brazilian women, two pregnancies, one nightmare. But two very different stories. Regina de Lima and Tainara Lourenco became pregnant at a scary moment…
UN health chief: Zika virus is ‘spreading explosively’
By JAMEY KEATEN and MARIA CHENG Declaring that the Zika virus is “spreading explosively,” chief of the World Health Organization announced that it will hold an emergency meeting of independent…
Health minister: Brazil is ‘losing battle’ against mosquito
By JENNY BARCHFIELD Brazil’s health minister says the country will mobilize some 220,000 troops to battle the mosquito blamed for spreading a virus suspected of causing birth defects — but…