Health Archive
Archives for October 2014
In the wake of news of an Ebola infection in Dallas there have been calls for US airports to screen passengers for the virus. Here’s why that won’t keep Americans safe from Ebola - and what will.
The largest ever outbreak of the virus is happening right now — and stumping researchers.
This is the first case of Ebola spread outside of West Africa this year.
Early Ebola symptoms can look like a lot of other things.
There are four hospitals in the United States with special isolation wings to treat highly infectious patients. George Risi runs one of them.
Stop freaking out about Ebola and go get your seasonal flu shot.
An anthropologist on fear in the Ebola hot zone and how it’s destroying the social fabric of communities.
An American cameraman who had been hired by the network to cover the epidemic has tested positive for the virus.
Its easier to catch SARS, HIV, or mumps than it is to catch Ebola.
Fears that Ebola will mutate and spread through the air are overblown, experts say.
There’s a lot of nonsense out there. Here’s the facts.
The news of the first US Ebola infection is frightening, but the strength of America’s health care system means that we won’t have an outbreak in the US like the ones in Guinea, Liberia, or Sierra Leone.
What we can learn from the world’s worst Ebola epidemic that we didn’t learn from the SARS and H1N1 swine flu scares.
Quickly understand the worst Ebola outbreak ever