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American Ebola patient arrives at Atlanta hospital
Kent Brantly, a doctor who contracted Ebola in Liberia, shown with colleagues in this undated photograph provided by Samaritan's Purse. Samaritan's Purse//Reuters CNN reports that an American doctor...
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How much should you be worried about Ebola?
A very helpful chart with which to manage the outbreak of Ebola panic on social media. [found on Twitter, creator unknown]
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African leaders attending summit with Obama in US first screened for Ebola
"String-like Ebola virus peeling off an infected cell." Heinz Feldmann, Peter Jahrling, Elizabeth Fischer and Anita Mora, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of...
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Experimental drug 'likely saved' first two Americans with Ebola
Kent Brantly, a doctor who contracted Ebola in Liberia, shown with colleagues in this undated photograph provided by Samaritan's Purse. Samaritan's Purse//Reuters CNN reports that an experimental...
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Facts about Ebola, from the CDC
This infographic from the US Centers for Disease Control serves to dispel some of the panic spreading around the disease. Larger size here, and a printable PDF is here. [via Sanjay Gupta]
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100 people may have been exposed to Ebola via first U.S. patient, four are...
"Up to 100 people may have had contact with the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States, and four people were quarantined in a Dallas apartment where sheets and other items used by the...
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Questions over quality of care provided to first Ebola patient to die in US
A 2011 photo provided by Wilmot Chayee shows Thomas Eric Duncan at a wedding in Ghana. In September 2014, Duncan became the first patient in the U.S. diagnosed with Ebola. He died today, October 8,...
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5 U.S. airports will begin screening travelers for Ebola
Pedestrians walk past a mural showing the symptoms of the Ebola virus in Monrovia, Liberia, September 26, 2014. [REUTERS/James Giahyue] Federal officials today said that passengers arriving from West...
View ArticlePassengers ebola joke triggers hazmat panic
When a dark-skinned man sneezed on a plane then joked about having ebola, the flight crew took no chances and called a team in hazardous material suits to escort him off the plane. The passenger had...
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GamerGate metaphor: Woman pulls gun on ISIS member with ebola raping her pit...
#GamerGate metaphor: Woman pulls #gun on #ISIS member with #ebola raping her pit bull in the most buzzword-filled news headline of the year. • Woman Finds Naked Man With Her Pitbull -- And It Gets...
View ArticleFighting Ebola through music: Sierra Leone's Jimmy B and “Ebola 4 Go”
In his music video "Ebola 4 Go", Sierra Leone music star Jimmy Yeanie Bangura, aka “Jimmy B,” pays homage to the fight against Ebola. The outbreak is "the biggest calamity that has befallen Sierra...
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Sexual transmission of Ebola suspected in new case
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control report that a woman in Liberia is suspected of having contracted Ebola through sexual intercourse. After falling ill in Monrovia, the 44-year-old victim was found...
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Ebola-free Liberia mysteriously gets 3rd new victim today
After almost two months of an Ebola-free Liberia, the deadly disease has reared its head again. And officials fear there may be a new way of contracting it. Three cases have popped up in the last...
View ArticleWe've got to stop turning our backs on Ebola
Remember back in 2014 when everyone thought that an Ebola outbreak in Africa wouldn't be a problem for North Americans and then – and this is the shit and giggle part – four laboratory-confirmed cases...
View ArticleEbola outbreak in Congo has spread to city of one million people
The latest Ebola outbreak in Congo has moved from the rural area in which is was first discovered to Mbandaka: a city home to approximately one million people. That the disease has spread to an area...
View ArticleTwo late-stage Ebola patients break quarantine, the number they may have...
Last week, the Democratic Republic of Congo’s latest Ebola outbreak was confirmed to have spread to Mbandaka, a transportation hub, home to over one million people. As of the time that this post was...
View ArticleVaccinations against Ebola begin in Congolese town of Bikoro
Last week, officials in charge of stemming the latest outbreak of Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo began the process of inoculating healthcare workers and other individuals who may have...
View ArticleEbola keeps on keeping on
Hey gang, let's talk Ebola: Everyone's favorite viral boogeyman. Over the weekend, the AFP News Agency reported that health professionals in the Democratic Republic of Congo have uncovered five new...
View ArticleFight against Ebola continues in high security African lab
With all of the horrible things happening in America right now, it’s easy to become overwhelmed by the news and forget that there are other, equally terrible things happening elsewhere. Take Ebola, for...
View ArticleLatest Ebola outbreak has come to an end
After three months and 33 deaths, the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been declared by the World Health Organization to have come to an end. The loss of 33 lives to the disease...
View ArticleWorld Health Organization: Ebola's back, baby!
So… remember a few days ago when the World Health Organization declared the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo as having come to an end. Well, the disease is back on its bullshit again...
View ArticleEbola in a war zone: what could go wrong?
A few days after skipping out on the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ebola decided, ‘nah,’ cropping back up in a town of around 60,000 potential carriers called Mangina, located in Congo’s North Kivu...
View ArticleWarring militant groups are making the fight against Ebola even more...
Around a month ago, Ebola popped back up in the Democratic Republic of Congo, scant days after the World Health Organization had declared that another outbreak of the disease had come to an end. Trying...
View Article'No one should be sleeping well tonight': WHO encourages fear of Ebola
The Democratic Republic of Congo continues to fight off the worst Ebola outbreak in years. Butembo, a major regional hub of 1 million people, has now had a confirmed death. The World Health...
View ArticleEbola outbreak in Congo: things are getting worse
The latest Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has proven a sumbitch to contain. Since this latest "oh shit" moment in the history of this infectious outbreak started on August 1st, the...
View ArticleInfoWars and others spread lies on migrants bringing Ebola to US, officials...
Trump-aligned extremists are busily spreading disinformation online this week about 'Immigrants Are Bringing Ebola To The US.' Officials say the conspiracy amplified by Alex Jones of Infowars, Gateway...
View ArticleEbola's still raging
The last time I wrote about Ebola, there were 117 confirmed related deaths along with the 35 deaths likely related to the most recent outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Roll forward eight...
View ArticleEbola outbreak declared a public health emergency of international concern
Hey! Remember last month when the World Health Organization was like 'nah, let's not declare this outbreak of a viral hemorrhagic fever that's killed over 1,000 people this time around a public health...
View ArticleEbola is now a treatable disease
Ebola is now a treatable disease. Two of four experimental drugs designed to tackle Ebola have proven highly effective during field testing. Up until now, 70% infected of those infected with the Ebola...
View ArticleTrump administration ends program to monitor animal diseases that could...
Donald Trump's administration will end a federal program that monitors dangerous animal diseases that could spread to humans. This news alarms public health experts, and those who are concerned that...
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