Health Archive
Archives for October 2014
The decision ends the state’s mandatory quarantine order.
It is literally impossible to imagine how Ebola could be transmitted in this particular scenario, which involves a health worker who has twice tested negative for Ebola and a pizza delivery person who has not recently traveled to West Africa.
How a shortage of health personnel is hampering the eradication effort.
Hickox said she won’t be bullied by politicians.
Some states are rushing to lock up travelers returning from West Africa to stop the spread of the virus. Here’s your state-by-state guide.
Why the region needs US doctors and nurses now more than ever.
When the virus met modern medicine, nearly everyone survived.
Quarantining returning Ebola workers “is like driving a carpet tack with a sledgehammer.”
Even Halloween can’t escape anti-vaxxers’ messaging.
How fears of disease change people’s politics.
The nurse will be released from the hospital, but she’ll remain under a mandatory quarantine order until she leaves New Jersey.
A deadly disease not only keeps people from work because of illness; it keeps people from investing in other countries
Quarantines may sound nice, but they involve mistreatment of heroic health workers.
A touching picture following a nurse’s victory over Ebola.