Health Archive
Archives for October 2014
Better training and more experience may have helped America’s biocontamination units successfully prevent the transmission of Ebola.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s emergency preparedness budget has fallen about half since 2006.
A global epidemic in these five steps.
The Ebola epidemic is horrible. But it’s more than that: it’s a warning that what comes next could be devastating — unless we learn its lessons now.
You definitely won’t miss the dramatic spike in activity.
How Ebola cases are being missed and under-counted.
In the time between the first Ebola patient being diagnosed in the US, and his death, something like 13,144 Americans died from heart disease.
The CDC has announced a new airport screening process to identify travelers with Ebola before they enter the US
A nurse treating Ebola patients told health care workers “I think I have Ebola.” They didn’t listen.
Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian national, died this morning.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed the first-ever case of Ebola diagnosed in America.
The brain runs out of willpower as the day goes on.
Gloria Tumwijuke nearly died from the Ebola virus in a 2012 outbreak in Uganda. Here’s her story.
The rare virus has now shown up in 43 states across the US and in Canada.
A Q&A with a public health official on enterovirus D68, a deadly virus that is striking children across the country.