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Counties across West Virginia saw over four inches of rain from torrential downpours on Tuesday. (Photo courtesy of the West Virginia National Guard)

Extreme Weather

West Virginia under State of Emergency following torrential rainstorms

The National Weather Service has confirmed that at least five tornadoes touched down across West Virginia and southeastern Ohio during the severe weather system that caused deadly flash ...

Medical aid is delivered to the Democratic Republic of Congo to equip health workers working to contain Ebola.

Operational Update

Ebola Outbreak surpasses 1,000 Deaths

Over the past week, Direct Relief has delivered 420 shipments of requested medical aid to 38 U.S. states and territories and 20 countries worldwide. The shipments contained 7 million ...

a health care worker moves medical aid from a truck to the clinic in Ituri, DRC

DRC Ebola Outbreak 2026

The Patients Ebola Statistics Don’t Count

The last text message from Jean arrived on April 26. The severely underweight 20-year-old man with diabetes wrote to Alfred Kakisingi on WhatsApp to say, once again, that he could not find ...