NEIDL in the News
Drug Found Effective Against Virus Similar to Ebola
Original article from: USA Today posted on August 20, 2014. by Karen Weintraub A study out today shows that an experimental treatment for Marburg virus – a close cousin to Ebola – can be given after symptoms of the terrible disease have started to appear. The finding suggests that similar treatments may... More
U.S. Doctor To Travel To Sierra Leone To Help Ebola Victims (Audio)
Original article from: NPR posted on August 20, 2014 Dr. Nahid Bhadelia, an infectious diseases expert at Boston University, is going to Sierra Leone to help care for Ebola patients. She talks to Kelly McEvers about the challenges she expects to face. Listen to Dr. Bhadelia on NPR
Disease Control Suffers Lack of Fast Detection Tool
Original article from: Punch posted on August 19, 2014. By Folashade Adebayo with Agency Reports In detecting the first case of Ebola in Nigeria, the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, played a prompt and face-saving role. The LUTH’s preliminary result, though subjected to confirmatory tests, helped in the swift isolation of the... More
Researchers Race to Develop Field Tests to Confirm Ebola
Original article from: Bloomberg posted on August 15, 2014. By Marie French It took three days recently for a New York City hospital to determine that a patient with Ebola-like symptoms didn’t have the deadly virus. Now, as the disease rages in West Africa, researchers are closing in on the development of... More
Ebola Control Suffers from Lack of Fast Detection Tool
Original article from: USA Today posted on August 15, 2014. By Karen Weintraub Early in August, when doctors worried that a patient at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York had Ebola, it took nearly three days to confirm that he didn't. And that was in one of the richest, most medically... More
Battling Ebola (Special Report)
Original article from: Bostonia As the worst Ebola outbreak on record continued to infect new patients and claim additional lives in West Africa, BU Today launched a weeklong Special Report in which BU researchers discussed why medical personnel risk traveling to the hot zone; how the virus kills; the ethical and... More
American Doctors Volunteer to Fight Ebola as More Health Workers Die
Original article from: BreitBart posted on August 9, 2014. By Mary Chastain Out of the almost 1,000 Ebola victims, some of the most vulnerable are the medical workers on the front line. They know the risks, yet sacrifice their lives to help others. Despite the outbreak, more Americans are lining up... More
Ebola; Battling a deadly disease
Original article from: Homeland Security News Wire posted on August 11, 2014 A smoldering debate about whether researchers should ever deliberately create superflu strains and other risky germs in the interest of science has flared once again. Proponents of the work say that in order to protect the public from the next... More
Biologists Choose Sides In Safety Debate Over Lab-Made Pathogens (Audio)
Original article from: NPR posted on August 13, 2014. By Neil GreenfieldBoyce A smoldering debate about whether researchers should ever deliberately create superflu strains and other risky germs in the interest of science has flared once again. Proponents of the work say that in order to protect the public from the next... More
Doctor’s Work with Ebola may Benefit Boston
Original article from: Boston Globe posted on August 13, 2014. By Felice J. Freyer First, she pulls on the surgical gloves. Then, Dr. Nahid Bhadelia climbs into a Tyvek suit resembling baggy white coveralls. Over that, she dons rubber boots, an apron, a gown, and another pair of gloves. Then, she... More
POV: Battling Ebola. It’s Our Problem, Too
Original article from: BU Today posted on August 8, 2014. By Paul Duprex I can’t hear the three words “point of view” without instantly thinking of my dad! “Here’s my point…” is probably one of his favorite phrases, and I guess he’s not alone. Doesn’t everyone have some point or other... More
20 Things to Know about the Ebola Outbreak
Original article from: Becker's Hospital Review posted on August 7, 2014. By Lindsey Dunn Ebola overview 1. Ebola, as it is commonly refereed to, is short for Ebola virus disease, a form of haemorrhagic fever, that causes severe illness and is often fatal. 2. Symptoms include fever, extreme weakness, muscle pain and sore... More
Battling Ebola: Working with a Deadly Virus; BU Researcher Views the Virus with Respect, Not Fear
Original article from: BU Today posted on August 7, 2014. By Sara Rimer Elke Mühlberger, associate professor of microbiology at the School of Medicine, is one of a small group of microbiologists around the world who are trained to work with Ebola and similarly deadly viruses in Biosafety Level 4 (BSL-4)... More
Battling Ebola: NEIDL’s Role
Original article from: BU Today posted on August 7, 2014. By Art Jahnke As the worst Ebola outbreak on record continues to spread disease and death through several West African countries, public interest in infectious disease research is spiking. BU Today spoke about research conducted at BU’s National Emerging Infectious Disease... More
Quest for an Ebola Cure Intensifies as Doctors Struggle to Treat Patients
Original article from: Wired posted on August 7, 2014. By Carolyn Crist John Connor would really like to cure Ebola. He’s a microbiologist at Boston University, working in an interdisciplinary unit with BU computer scientists and engineers, Boston-area biotech companies, and researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston... More
CDC Goes all out to Combat Ebola; Organizations Dispatch Specialists to Africa
Original article from: Boston Herald posted on August 7, 2014. By Lindsay Kalter The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has set its emergency operations center in Atlanta at its highest response level over the Ebola crisis, dispatching dozens of experts to the stricken region in West Africa, while the... More
The Most Destructive Myths About Ebola Virus, Debunked
Original article from: Huffington Post posted on August 6, 2014. By Anna Almendrala Myths and rumors about the Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa are hindering health workers from doing their jobs abroad and causing unnecessary panic and paranoia in the United States. Here's the truth about some of the... More
Battling Ebola: Tracking the Virus; Current Ebola Outbreak Defies Earlier Models
Original article from: BU Today posted on August 6, 2014. By Susan Seligson It’s a persistent cliché in films dramatizing deadly epidemics: that chart with the ominously multiplying paper-doll cutouts—first 2 cases, then 4, then 16…then an entire city under statistical siege. But for real-life disease trackers like Laura Forsberg White, More
Fears Rise of Ebola Spreading to U.S.
Original article from: Boston Herald posted on August 6, 2014. By Lindsay Kalter The deadly Ebola virus continues to tear through West Africa at an alarming rate, heightening fears among American doctors that the disease could make its way past U.S. borders. “It’s very simple: The more people who are infected, the... More
Cambridge Firm’s Ebola Drug Carries Hope, Risk
Original article from: Boston Globe posted on August 6, 2014. By Tracy Jan & Felice J. Freyer A Cambridge-based biotech company that has developed an experimental treatment for the Ebola virus is urging federal officials to consider allowing the unproven medication to be used on patients who have been infected in... More