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Basic Information on Ebola
Here is some basic background information on this outbreak of Ebola, so as to limit repetition in future posts. This outbreak began in late December 2013 when a two year old boy in Guinea began...
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WHO’s Status Report on the Ebola Epidemic
On 9/23, WHO published a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine that looked back on the spread of the disease and offered some insights as to where they think the virus could go from there. The...
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Transmission of Ebola
Though discussed in the first post on the basics of Ebola,[1] there is still some confusion as to how Ebola is transmitted. When Ebola first hit the mainstream news in July there was a lot of emphasis...
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Contact Tracing and the Second US Ebola Transmission
Ebola is generally contained by contact tracing: finding anyone who had contact with any sick person and following up with them to be sure that they didn’t get infected. Usually this is done by taking...
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