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Going by the mainstream media, it appears as if Ebola is no longer the big news item it became just a few weeks ago. In fact, some of the members of the "I told you so" brigade (otherwise known as the "Chicken Little mockers") appear to be participating in "Official End of the Ebola Scare" festivities. Reportedly, these ridiculous (to those who know that Ebola and many other Ebola-like disasters will...
November 5, 2014
Actually, there was much to learn from the Influenza pandemic of 1918. Some of the lessons it taught, however, have been lost through the attrition of time, as a result of people (except for professionals in the life sciences and healthcare) losing interest in scientific events outside of their short attention span, and because of a general lack of interest in historical events. Fortunately, the scientific...
October 28, 2014
I read an article in Wellness.com recent news from Yale researchers Predict "Catastrophic" Ebola Epidemic in West Africa If Aid Delayed. (HealthDay). Now, we have an ER doc returned from an endemic area, after noble service, but in a New York Hospital with Ebola, his fiancé at high risk, and out in the public last 3 days not feeling well. Obviously, his self-monitoring quarantined plan failed. If the...
October 24, 2014
Ebola clearly presents a number of problems for humanity in general—not just for the people of Africa or third world countries. Yes, third world countries are less well-prepared than their richer, better-equipped counterparts, but history has proven that dangerous pathogens have a funny way of ignoring socio-economic boundaries. Although fear-mongering and journalistic sensationalism is certainly...
October 15, 2014
Half a world away, the largest Ebola outbreak in history has reached a staggering death toll numbering in the thousands. In some areas, medical personnel are unable to contain the infection to prevent the spread of this deadly disease that carries up to a 90% mortality rate in the affected African countries. On September 30, 2014, the CDC confirmed that a man in Dallas, TX, tested positive for the...
October 13, 2014
The first patient actually infected in the United States is a nurse out of Dallas caring for the FIRST victim to enter the United States. The CDC states that the nurse broke protocol, but specifically what protocol did she break? The people want to know; health professionals want to know. The CDC must publish this protocol lapse, so we all can be better informed. I mentioned in the preceding article...
October 13, 2014
It may surprise some people to know that there is anything along the lines of “good news” in relation to Ebola but that is, strangely, the case. Actually, disasters sometimes bring benefits which people may appreciate only after deep introspection; then again, there are those who feel guilty at recognizing any such “benefits” out of fear that they will be accused of being insensitive. On the other...
October 12, 2014
In fourteen hundred ninety-two Columbus sailed the ocean blue... I was surprised to find that Columbus Day is still an official Federal holiday. Christopher Columbus was a much bigger figure in American history when I was in elementary school back in the 1970s, as our history textbooks told his same heroic story for generations. After all he discovered America, didn’t he? - He had three ships and left...
October 8, 2014
By Fred Fletcher - Does Ebola deserve the attention it’s been getting lately? Is it as dangerous as some so-called “alarmists” (e.g., Mike Adams, Donald Trump, etc.) are suggesting? Or is it the easily-manageable threat others (like the CDC) are proclaiming? Actually, the truth may lie somewhere in the middle. Yes, infectious disease experts may know the most about the viruses that cause Ebola virus...
October 2, 2014
Having been an Emergency Room physician for more years than I care to admit, I've been keeping a close eye on the Ebola news as many of you I'm sure. Ebola has now spread beyond Africa with the first USA case now in Texas and the exposed family is under close observation - no surprise. All viruses know “how to get around” and the Ebola virus - probably from African Fruit Bats - has infected humans...
October 1, 2014
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