ebola epidemic

Santa Barbara Woman in LA-Area Hospital is Negative for Ebola

Written on March 23, 2015. Posted in Breaking News, Featured.

Monday morning public health officials said that a Santa Barbara County resident who was being monitored since returning from a country experiencing the Ebola epidemic tested negative for the virus at a Los Angeles area hospital. Santa Barbara County Public Health officials said the woman was isolated after she developed a fever and signs of illness on Sunday evening. The patient was initially monitored at home and it was during that monitoring...

Measles Cases Predicted to Almost Double in Ebola Epidemic Countries

Written on March 13, 2015. Posted in Featured, Health News, World News.

An international study involving the University of Southampton suggests there could be a rise in measles cases of 100,000 across the three countries most affected by the Ebola epidemic in West Africa due to health system disruptions. The research in the journal Science, led by Princeton and Johns Hopkins University in the USA, predicts that the size of a measles outbreak will increase from 127,000 at the start of the Ebola epidemic in early 2014,...

Threat to Stopping Ebola Virus Is Believing That It’s Finished

Written on March 9, 2015. Posted in Featured, Health News.

The last Ebola patient in all of Liberia was discharged from a treatment center on Thursday, March 5th. And with that, the country was without a single confirmed case of the dreaded disease. This is amazing. A few months ago, Ebola threatened to overwhelm the nation. Now, even though Ebola still exists in neighboring Sierra Leone and Guinea, Liberia is counting the days until it can be considered Ebola-free. That officially comes on April 4th....

How Can You Protect Yourself & Your Family from Ebola Virus?

Written on February 20, 2015. Posted in Blogs & Links, Featured, Opinion News, Personal Safety.

By now, it should be obvious that we cannot rely on this administration to keep Ebola out of our country. It has been unwilling to restrict air travelers from entering or to secure the open land border. The CDC is simply offering lame rationales to support administration policy. Its advice on infection control is inconsistent. Also it is based on categorical assertions that are unproved or demonstrably false. Hospitals are unprepared even by CDC...

Containing The Ebola Epidemic – Or Not

Written on February 18, 2015. Posted in Featured, Opinion News, Personal Safety.

Standard public health measures for dealing with infectious disease epidemics have long been known. The mainstays are quarantine and contact tracing. These are obviously easier and more effective when there are very few cases. Apparently, neither hospitals nor individuals have adhered to CDC guidelines. Texas Health Presbyterian Dallas discharged the index Ebola patient despite his travel history. Allegedly, the patient was not entirely honest...

What Are You Not Being Told About The Ebola Virus?

Written on February 17, 2015. Posted in Featured, Opinion News, Personal Safety.

The information I’m about to present here is frightening. There’s really no way around that. However, I request that you do your very best to maintain a calm state of mind. Right now in West Africa the worst Ebola outbreak in history is in full swing and is jumping borders at an alarming rate. Already it has spread to four countries, Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and now Nigeria. This latest jump into Nigeria is particularly serious...

Don’t Get Your Hopes Up on Ebola Vaccines – Warn Scientists

Written on February 17, 2015. Posted in Breaking News, Featured, Health News, World News.

A team of leading international scientists on Tuesday called for new Ebola vaccines to be made available in months rather than years and warned against complacency after a reduction in infection rates. “Despite falling infection rates in West Africa, the risk that the current Ebola outbreak may not be brought completely under control remains,” said Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust, Britain’s biggest medical charity....

Where Did The Ebola Virus Come From?

Written on February 16, 2015. Posted in Blogs & Links, Featured, Personal Safety, Science News.

Ebola is one of about 177 pathogens that are considered to be newly emerging diseases. These diseases are generally zoonotic diseases. Animal diseases that have jumped species. A familiar example of a zoonotic disease is measles, which is derived from dog distemper. For the past thirty years, forty-one previously unrecognized human infectious diseases have jumped from their normal animal hosts to human beings. This has frequently occurred in Africa,...

13 Crucial Things You Need to Know About Ebola Virus

Written on February 12, 2015. Posted in Featured, Health News, World News.

As a deadly Ebola epidemic spreads across western Africa, world leaders are scrambling to find solutions. Here’s what you need to know about the disease and the havoc it is wreaking: 1. Ebola is primarily ravaging the West African nations of Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, and Senegal. Authorities in these nations have scrambled to contain the disease. In Sierra Leone, the government quarantined a third of the entire population — about...

Ebola in West Africa – The Deadly Virus is Still Undefeated

Written on January 13, 2015. Posted in Featured, Health News, World News.

In Sierra Leone, the cheerful new year’s Eve celebrations on the beaches failed this year in the face of the Ebola epidemic. Instead, President Ernest Koroma urged people to stay at home and pray for the end of the fight against the virus in the new year. It’s not certain whether the worst Ebola outbreak in history can actually be defeated by the of 2015. In Liberia, the spread of the virus seems to be slowing down, while no improvement...

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