Public Health Archive
Archives for October 2014
It’s really easy and cheap, but almost everyone does it wrong.
“I know people are tense but let’s get the facts before people start judging a very scared human who took risks for others.”
The fact that none of Thomas Duncan’s close contacts got infected should ease ‘Ebolanoia.’
The argument against airport screening and travel restrictions in a time of Ebola.
Data paints a dire picture of a country bracing for an outbreak that only gets worse.
Here’s what’s scary about the Dallas health-care worker infected with Ebola: she knew she was treating an Ebola patient.
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.
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.
The largest ever outbreak of the virus is happening right now — and stumping researchers.