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Epidemiology Source: Wired
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Friday, Dec 19, 2014, 8:07am Rating: | Views: 2384 | Comments: 0
Hunt For Dengue Vaccine Gets Closer Dengue sickens millions of people each year, and there's no cure. Now scientists have found powerful antibodies that stop the virus. Their discovery offers a road map to develop a simple vaccine.
Epidemiology Source: NPR
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Tuesday, Dec 16, 2014, 1:12pm Rating: | Views: 1406 | Comments: 0
For Ebola Patients in Sierra Leone, Survival Takes More Than Medicine For all the medicine they provide at this center, physicians and staff from Doctors Without Borders spend as much time encouraging the patients to eat, drink, and keep fighting. Every patient gets a standard regimen of antibiotics, paracetemol and other pain medications, vitamins, oral rehydration therapy or intravenous fluids. Drugs can control nausea for those who need them; everyone gets antimalarials.
Epidemiology Source: Wired
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Tuesday, Dec 16, 2014, 1:12pm Rating: | Views: 1626 | Comments: 0
Epidemiology Source: NPR
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Tuesday, Dec 16, 2014, 1:12pm Rating: | Views: 1616 | Comments: 0
Debunking Vaccine Myths Can Have An Unintended Effect People concerned about potential flu vaccine side effects may be less likely to get the shot after learning that their worries are misplaced than they were to start with.
Epidemiology Source: NPR
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Thursday, Dec 11, 2014, 7:59am Rating: | Views: 1513 | Comments: 0
Epidemiology Source: New Scientist
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Wednesday, Dec 10, 2014, 7:38am Rating: | Views: 1548 | Comments: 0
In Sierra Leone, Nurses Who Survive Ebola Return to Help Others Erika Check Hayden reports from Sierra Leone on nurses who caught Ebola and survived, and are now back in clinics helping others fight the disease. Even though they are thankful to have escaped with their lives, the stigma and fear they face in their neighborhoods can be difficult. Sometimes the clinic is the only place they feel at home.
Epidemiology Source: Wired
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Tuesday, Dec 09, 2014, 6:49am Rating: | Views: 1589 | Comments: 0
Epidemiology Source: TIME Magazine
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Thursday, Dec 04, 2014, 6:50am Rating: | Views: 1659 | Comments: 0
No serious side effects in Merck/Newlink Ebola vaccine test The first people vaccinated with an experimental Ebola shot being developed by Merck and NewLink have had no serious side effects so far, but a few experienced mild fever, Swiss researchers said on Tuesday.
Epidemiology Source: Reuters
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Wednesday, Dec 03, 2014, 8:13am Rating: | Views: 1697 | Comments: 0
Ebola In The Air: What Science Says About How The Virus Spreads Turns out, Ebola is transmitted through the air, but it's not very good at spreading through the airborne route. What in the heck does that mean? We dig into the science to clear up the kerfuffle.
Epidemiology Source: NPR
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Tuesday, Dec 02, 2014, 7:45am Rating: | Views: 1743 | Comments: 0
Epidemiology Source: NPR
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Tuesday, Nov 25, 2014, 8:24am Rating: | Views: 1913 | Comments: 0
Bloodmobiles To Collect Plasma From West Africa's Ebola Survivors Researchers gear up tests in West Africa to see whether blood from Ebola survivors can help people who are sick with the disease. This is part of a broader effort to test therapies in West Africa.
Epidemiology Source: NPR
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Wednesday, Nov 19, 2014, 8:12am Rating: | Views: 2095 | Comments: 0
Epidemiology Source: TIME Magazine
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Thursday, Nov 13, 2014, 8:41am Rating: | Views: 1204 | Comments: 0
How 'The Hot Zone' Got It Wrong And Other Tales Of Ebola's History Do people with Ebola actually cry tears of blood? What happens if the U.S. Army thinks you might have Ebola? We catch up with science writer David Quammen to discuss truths and myths about the virus.
Epidemiology Source: NPR
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Wednesday, Nov 12, 2014, 8:51am Rating: | Views: 1169 | Comments: 0
Australian smokers learn to accept gruesome packets The graphic images plastered across unbranded cigarette packs in Australia have gained acceptance, with more smokers now supporting the packaging than opposed
Epidemiology Source: New Scientist
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Wednesday, Nov 12, 2014, 8:51am Rating: | Views: 1183 | Comments: 0
Epidemiology Source: NPR
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Friday, Nov 07, 2014, 9:26am Rating: | Views: 1178 | Comments: 0
Drug-resistant superbug found in 1915 soldier killed by dysentery Scientists who unlocked the genetic code of bacteria grown from a soldier who died of dysentery in World War I say it revealed a superbug already resistant to penicillin and other antibiotics decades before they were in common use.
Epidemiology Source: Reuters
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Friday, Nov 07, 2014, 9:26am Rating: | Views: 1171 | Comments: 0
Epidemiology Source: NPR
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Thursday, Nov 06, 2014, 8:17am Rating: | Views: 1193 | Comments: 0
Ebola may have reached turning point Dr Jeremy Farrar of Wellcome Trust says international community is belatedly taking actions necessary to stem tide of disease
Epidemiology Source: TheGuardian
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Thursday, Oct 30, 2014, 8:55am Rating: | Views: 1190 | Comments: 0
Blood Test For Ebola Doesn't Catch Infection Early A highly sensitive blood test for Ebola exists, so why isn't it being used to test all returning health workers from West Africa? Because the virus isn't in the blood in the first stages of infection.
Epidemiology Source: NPR
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Wednesday, Oct 29, 2014, 8:11am Rating: | Views: 1104 | Comments: 0
Epidemiology Source: TheGuardian
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Wednesday, Oct 29, 2014, 8:11am Rating: | Views: 1278 | Comments: 0
Ancient Viruses Lurk In Frozen Caribou Poo A 700-year-old caribou dropping from northern Canada holds surprisingly well-preserved viruses. There's no evidence the viruses are dangerous, but they are scientifically interesting.
Epidemiology Source: NPR
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Tuesday, Oct 28, 2014, 8:15am Rating: | Views: 1103 | Comments: 0
FDA Cracks Down On Fake Ebola Cures Sold Online The Food and Drug Administration has issued warning letters to companies marketing products claimed to be cures for Ebola. One firm says it will drop such claims — but it's still selling the product.
Epidemiology Source: NPR
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Friday, Oct 24, 2014, 8:16am Rating: | Views: 1187 | Comments: 0
Fixing 'Ebolanomics' in pursuit of vaccines and drugs As researchers from Africa to China to America race to develop vaccines and treatments to fight Ebola, health experts are grappling with the economics of a disease that until this year had been off the drug industry's radar.
Epidemiology Source: Reuters
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Friday, Oct 24, 2014, 8:16am Rating: | Views: 1144 | Comments: 0
Epidemiology Source: New Scientist
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Friday, Oct 24, 2014, 8:16am Rating: | Views: 1130 | Comments: 0
Ebola Vaccine Could Start Testing In Africa By January The World Health Organization says two vaccine candidates now undergoing small-scale tests of dosage and safety in people might be ready for broader deployment in Africa by early 2015.
Epidemiology Source: NPR
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Wednesday, Oct 22, 2014, 9:19am Rating: | Views: 1125 | Comments: 0
Epidemiology Source: Science
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Wednesday, Oct 22, 2014, 9:19am Rating: | Views: 1136 | Comments: 0
Why closing borders won't stop Ebola's rampage Screening people as they cross borders never works well but stopping people leaving affected countries could have devastating consequences
Epidemiology Source: New Scientist
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Tuesday, Oct 21, 2014, 9:00am Rating: | Views: 1124 | Comments: 0