Nigeria Is Free of Ebola, Health Agency Affirms

By NICK CUMMING-BRUCE

The announcement called Nigeria’s effort a “spectacular success story” but warned that the country, Africa’s most populous, cannot relax its defenses.

The Upshot

Only 11 Percent of Uninsured Know About Obamacare’s Next Open Enrollment

By MARGOT SANGER-KATZ

Despite all the furor connected to last year’s rollout of the health insurance marketplace, few people are aware that a new deadline is on the way.

The Upshot

On an Antibiotic? You May Be Getting Only a False Sense of Security

By AARON E. CARROLL

Prescribing drugs for conditions that they cannot actually cure isn’t just a benign gesture. It can cause real harm, in several ways.

Life in Quarantine for Ebola Exposure: 21 Days of Fear and Loathing

By KEVIN SACK, JACK HEALY and FRANCES ROBLES

The number of people who have locked themselves away, either under government orders or voluntarily, has grown well beyond those who lived with and cared for the first Ebola victim in Dallas.

Dozens in Ohio Monitored for Possible Exposure to Nurse With Ebola

By MITCH SMITH

The nurse, Amber Joy Vinson, helped treat Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian man who died earlier this month in Dallas from the Ebola virus.

Health Scare in Texas Also Sends Political Ripples

By MANNY FERNANDEZ

Gov. Rick Perry’s back-seat public role in the Ebola drama was an unlikely position for an assertive, hands-on executive.

In Conspicuous Success, Senegal Is Declared Ebola-Free

By NICK CUMMING-BRUCE and RICK GLADSTONE

Senegal’s achievement came as the virus rampaged in neighboring countries and contagion alarm continued to mount.

The Upshot

The Partisan Divide on Ebola Preparedness

By BRENDAN NYHAN

Whether you think the government can handle an outbreak depends partly on whether you’re a member of the party in power.