Archive for July, 2014

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

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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

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

How To Fight The Worst Ebola Outbreak In History

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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

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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

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

Transmission catalog proposed to help combat zoonotic diseases – Nature Medicine

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

We Are Making Ebola Outbreaks Worse by Cutting Down Forests

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