Tag Archives: Ebola

“If you want a healthy ecosystem, the more you have to invest in health for wildlife and humans,” Then, the better place it will be. Because really, it all works together.” By Abby Haglage The Daily Beast (1/25/15) While coverage … Continue reading →

There were 269 incidents of lost or escaped microbes from CDC labs in 2010, compared to 16 in 2004.     By Julie Steenhuysen Reuter (12/31/14) CHICAGO - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention plans to hire a chief … Continue reading →

Infection is increasing “alarmingly” in Sierra Leone.     By Lisa O’Carroll The Guardian (12/2/14) The medical NGO Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) has launched a scathing attack on the international community for its slow and patchy response to the effort to stamp … Continue reading →

(Cartoon by Mark L. Taylor, www.DailyCall.org 2014)

KETV7 (10/27/14) OMAHA, Neb. —The Nebraska doctors who successfully treated two Ebola patients this fall plan to share lessons about how they protected health care workers from the deadly virus. The University of Nebraska Medical Center and Nebraska Medical Center … Continue reading →

As Ebola enters a deepening relationship with the human species, the question of how it is mutating has significance for every person on earth. (Editor’s Note: We are a long, long way from final answers of Ebola. We don;t know … Continue reading →

(Editor’s Note: If (when) the Ebola epidemic takes off in the United States both government and health care officials will have to be far more upfront and transparent than they have been so far if they expect health care workers … Continue reading →

Far too many leaders, organizations and agencies still don’t understand the concept of virus time or the desperate need for command and control leadership in the affected countries.   (Editor’s Note: There is a palpable sense of unreality and delusion … Continue reading →

DEFINITION OF ‘BLACK SWAN’ — An event or occurrence that deviates beyond what is normally expected of a situation and that would be extremely difficult to predict.  “Become comfortable with uncertainty.” Brasscheck TV (10/22/14) Michael Osterholm’s speech on how much we … Continue reading →

The Guardian  The latest Ebola outbreak is the largest the world has ever seen, with more than 4,500 confirmed deaths in west Africa. Patients are often killed not by the virus itself, but by the overreaction of their immune system … Continue reading →

The prospects of “countrywide” vaccination for Ebola with a rushed-to-market vaccination are absolutely horrifying. Dr. Sircus.com (10/21/14) We are being warned that the epidemic may not end until the world has a vaccine against the disease, according to Professor Peter … Continue reading →

“When it comes to infectious disease, if one of us is vulnerable, then all of us are vulnerable.”     The Nation (10/18/14) Thomas Duncan was the first person to die from Ebola on American soil. He was also a … Continue reading →

There is a very specific way to tape all the way around so that there are no gaps or “tenting” of the tape. If you don’t do this properly, there ends up being more than enough open pockets for contamination … Continue reading →

By David Batty The Guardian (10/18/14) Countries must step up efforts to tackle the spread of Ebola in west Africa by providing more troops, funding and medical staff to prevent it from becoming the “definitive humanitarian disaster of our generation”, … Continue reading →

Democracy Now! (10/15/14) As a second healthcare worker at Dallas’ Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital tests positive for Ebola after caring for patient Thomas Eric Duncan, the Centers for Disease Control has identified what it calls a “large group” of other … Continue reading →