Archive for July, 2014

The Critical Question We’re Not Asking About The Ebola Outbreak – Dr. Jon Epstein interviewed by The Huffington Post

July 31, 2014 The ebola outbreak in West Africa has the world on edge:…

Where Does Ebola Come From? – Dr. Jon Epstein interviewed by The Atlantic

July 29, 2014 How eating bats, washing victims’ bodies, and a lack of doctors…

How To Fight The Worst Ebola Outbreak In History

Doctors in West Africa are fighting the worst Ebola outbreak in history.  

MERS may be airborne, scientists say – Dr. Kevin Olival quoted on CNN.com

July 22, 2014 There have been 836 laboratory-confirmed cases of MERS infection since its…

How deforestation shares the blame for the Ebola epidemic – The Washington Post

July 8, 2014 Like most matters involving an Ebola epidemic, chronicling its first horrifying…

Transmission catalog proposed to help combat zoonotic diseases – Nature Medicine

July 7, 2014 A team led by disease ecologist Peter Daszak, president of the…

We Are Making Ebola Outbreaks Worse by Cutting Down Forests

July 7, 2014 Epidemiologists explain how human activity helps spread the deadly virus in…