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WATCH: When It Comes to Food Safety, How a Whole Chicken Differs From the Sum of Its Parts
Eighty percent of chicken sold today has been cut up into parts -- a process that can release salmonella buried in the skin. But government inspections mainly focus on whole chickens.
May 12, 2015
Inside the Fast-Food Scandal That Changed How Beef Is Regulated
More than 20 years ago, four children were killed in an outbreak of E. coli O157 -- a dangerous strain of bacteria that was linked back to undercooked hamburgers from Jack in the Box fast food restaurants.
May 11, 2015
Why the DOJ's Baltimore Police Investigation Could Be Different
The death of Freddie Gray from injuries sustained in police custody in Baltimore last month may now lead to structural overhaul of the city's police department.
May 8, 2015
Unsolved Killing of American Nuns in Liberia an Open Case Again
The FBI for the first time acknowledges the investigation of the 1992 killing of five American nuns in Liberia is again part of an active case.
May 7, 2015
What Is It Like Reporting from the Center of an Ebola Outbreak?
The Ebola crisis was still raging when filmmakers Dan Edge and Sasha J. Achilli travelled there in September to start work on the FRONTLINE investigation, "Outbreak."
May 6, 2015
Meet a Nurse Who Survived Ebola, then Went Back to the Outbreak
When Will Pooley contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone, he was volunteering at a treatment center nicknamed "the terror dome." He could have left anytime, but "I wouldn’t have been able to look myself in the eye," he says.
May 5, 2015
Ending the Ebola Crisis: The View From Inside Doctors Without Borders
The international president of Doctors Without Borders says she's been in some of the worst war zones there are, but nothing compared to the death she witnessed during the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
May 5, 2015
Was Ebola Outbreak an Exception Or Was it a Precedent?
Bruce Aylward, who helped lead the WHO's response to the Ebola outbreak, says the crisis in West Africa is "reflecting the way the world is changing in ways that we don’t fully understand."
May 5, 2015
Ebola: Sounding the Alarm
When people in West Africa started dying of a mysterious illness in early 2014, no one knew the deadliest Ebola outbreak in history had begun. How did it get so bad?
May 5, 2015
After Ebola: Are We Ready for the Next Epidemic?
Even the WHO says the world is unprepared for the next large-scale disease outbreak. What must be done?
May 5, 2015
New Clues Emerge On How Ebola Spread through West Africa
A New York Times investigation finds that the start of Ebola's spread in West Africa may stretch back earlier than officials have said.
May 5, 2015