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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
Challenges Remain for Technologies to Fight Ebola
Original article from: MIT Technology Review posted on August 6, 2014. By Alexandra Morris As of last week, the Ebola outbreak in West Africa had claimed the lives of 88 percent of the more than 1,000 confirmed cases. While several technologies for controlling the spread of the disease are under development, More
Ebola Epidemic: How does the Virus Strike?
Original article from: Al Arabiya News posted on August 5, 2014. By Saffiya Ansari As the Ebola virus spreads in its worst outbreak in history, find out exactly what the virus is, how to spot the signs, and whether we should be as afraid as the media says we should be. The outbreak, More
NYC Hospital Isolates, Tests Patient for Ebola
Original article from: Boston Herald posted on August 5, 2014. By Chris Cassidy A patient with possible Ebola symptoms who had recently returned from West Africa was being tested in isolation at New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital yesterday, as the death toll from the terrifying virus rose and the outbreak spread... More
50 U.S. health care workers to fight Ebola in West Africa (Video)
Original article from: CBS This Morning posted on August 5, 2014 No one is immune to the deadly Ebola virus in West Africa, including the health care workers trying to stop its spread. According to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 100 health care workers have been infected so... More
N.Y. Patient Likely Doesn’t have Ebola
Original article from: WTSP.com (Tampa) posted on August 4, 2014 New York, N.Y. -- A man who visited West Africa last month and is at a New York City hospital being tested for possible Ebola likely doesn't have it, according to a report from The Associated Press. A doctor at Mount Sinai... More
How Ebola Kills; MED’s John Connor is Devising Diagnostics to Spot Ebola and Antivirals to Treat the Disease
Original article from: BU Today posted on August 5, 2014. by Art Jahnke The Ebola outbreak in Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia has now infected more than 1,600 people, according to the World Health Organization. To learn about how the virus kills and efforts being made at BU to devise diagnostics... More
Boston Medical Center Doctor to Head to West Africa to Help Contain Ebola
Original article from: Boston.com posted on August 4, 2014. by Megan Turchi Dr. Nahid Bhadelia of Boston Medical Center will soon head to Sierra Leone in West Africa to help contain and stop the spread of the deadly Ebola virus, according to WHDH. NECN reported that “She’ll be doing the same kind... More
Battling Ebola: Heading Into the Outbreak; NEIDL’s Nahid Bhadelia to Care for Patients, Share Expertise
Original article from: BU Today posted on August 4, 2014. by Carey Goldberg On Saturday, the first of two sickened American health care workers was flown from Africa to a special containment unit at Emory University. Despite the risk of infection, medical personnel continue to travel to West Africa to help... More
Boston Doctor headed to Ebola-Infected Area (Video)
Original article from: WHDH posted on August 3, 2014. by Adam Harding BOSTON (WHDH) - As fears grow about the Ebola virus spreading outside of Africa, one Boston doctor is going straight to the source of the outbreak. Dr. Nahid Bhadelia of Boston Medical Center is just two weeks away from a... More
Mass. Doctor Heading to Africa to Help Fight Ebola (Video)
Original article from: NECN posted on August 3, 2014. by John Moroney Dr. Nahid Bhadelia is taking her knowledge about infectious disease to Sierra Leone, where she'll be in the trenches, treating people who are suffering from the deadly Ebola virus. "My parents are scared, but they know that this is something... More
Local Doctor Plans trip to Treat Ebola Patients (Video)
Original article from: WCVB posted on August 3, 2014. by Julie Loncich BOSTON —A local doctor is about to embark on a trip few could dream of taking. Dr. Nahid Bhadelia, an infection disease doctor at Boston University and Boston Medical Center, will travel to Sierra Leone in a few weeks to... More
Boston Doctor Heading To Africa To Battle Ebola Outbreak
Original article from: CBS Boston posted on August 2, 2014 BOSTON – (CBS) – She will soon be heading to the front lines of perhaps the world’s most urgent medical battle – the fight against the Ebola outbreak in Africa. Dr. Nahid Bhadelia is infection control director at Boston university’s national emerging... More
How US Doctors will treat the Ebola Patient (Video)
Original Video from: MSNBC posted on August 2, 2014. By Craig Melvin Watch Dr. Nahid Bhadelia
What Actually Happens When A Person Is Infected With The Ebola Virus
Original article from: Huffington Post posted on August 2, 2014. By Amanda L. Chan The worst outbreak of Ebola virus in history -- happening now in West Africa -- has claimed more than 700 lives, according to the latest count from the World Health Organization. The deaths occurred in Sierra Leone, More
Local Epidemiologist Heads Into Thick Of West Africa Ebola Outbreak (Audio)
Original article from: WBUR's RadioBoston posted on August 1, 2014 Health workers in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia are battling what’s been called the largest, most complex outbreak of the Ebola virus ever. The outbreak has killed more than 700 people in western Africa, including at least 50 health care workers. Some Ebola patients... More