Ebola-stricken nurse being flown to Washington
Federal health officials said Thursday they still don't know how two Dallas nurses caught Ebola from a patient, as criticism increased from lawmakers who questioned whether the nation is prepared to...
View ArticleU.N. blames rich nations for Ebola outbreak
“Ebola emerged nearly four decades ago. Why are clinicians still empty-handed, with no vaccines and no cure?” Dr. Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization, asked in a speech...
View ArticleU.S. prepared for Ebola ... 10 patients at a time
Have you wondered why Ebola patients are being sent to Omaha, Nebraska? It’s because one physician, Dr. Philip Smith, had the foresight to set up the Nebraska Biocontainment Patient Care Unit after the...
View ArticleFighting Ebola: Why an African Travel Ban Won't Help the U.S.
In the wake of the revelation that the Dallas man infected with Ebola flew on United Airlines flights from Liberia, more than a few people have seized on a blunt response: Ban flights from West Africa....
View ArticleObama’s Plan for Economic Immiseration
President Barack Obama spoke at length on the economy on Wednesday in the first of what is reported to be a series of speeches he will give around the country to push his economic ‘agenda.’ A question...
View ArticleThe Political Tool of Biological Agents
"Ebola virus virion" by CDC/Cynthia Goldsmith - Public Health Image Library World War Z is coming! Or at least you would think so given the media sensationalism surrounding Ebola. But as time has shown...
View ArticleCapitalist Denial and Climate Chaos
Capitalism is a term that comes fully loaded in the Western psyche. It is a Rorschach test that brings history, ideology and personal experience to the fore. Capitalism is perceived as oppositional, as...
View ArticlePutin offers WHO experimental Ebola vaccine
“We must act wisely to prevent the spread of this disease among our population,” Putin said in the meeting Monday, according to a Voice of Russia UK report. Chan and Putin met at the official Russian...
View ArticleA Vrba Message: Jews, Ebola and Two Holocausts
by Morris Samuels There is growing concern about the multiple connections between Ebola and a US bioweapons lab at the epicenter of the outbreak in Sierre Leone. The organizations associated with the...
View ArticleThe Underreported Side of the Ebola Crisis
Amid the media accounts of the worst Ebola outbreak ever recorded some significant context is largely missing from the major media reporting. Atop this list are links of the outbreak to the climate...
View ArticleThe Political Economy of Climate Change
By reports, 2012 was the The last decade was the . Even for those arguing other hypotheses also fit the warming climate, the consistency of warming, the joint probability in statistical terms, must...
View ArticleMoving From Peril to Progress
Co-authored with Terrol Graham, M.P.H. The first person treated for Ebola in the United States died last week. He had travelled to America from Liberia after helping an infected individual in his...
View ArticleThe Politics of Language and the Language of Political Regression
Capitalism and its defenders maintain dominance through the material resources at their command, especially the state apparatus, and their productive, financial and commercial enterprises, as well as...
View ArticleCDC insists, 'We know how to stop Ebola spread'
“We know how to stop Ebola before the distribution of the disease becomes widespread,” Frieden explained in the media advisory on Saturday, the fifth day after Thomas Eric Duncan was diagnosed with...
View ArticleAirlines on edge after Ebola nurse's flight
An Air France jet was grounded Thursday in Madrid after a Nigerian passenger showed potential Ebola symptoms. The passenger on Air France flight 1300, with 156 passengers and seven crew members on...
View ArticleHealth-care worker in Dallas has Ebola
Dr. Thomas Frieden, the director of the Centers for Disease Control, said Sunday morning on the CBS program “Face the Nation” that the infected health care worker at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital...
View ArticleEbola decimates Duncan’s neighborhood in Liberia
Nine neighbors of Thomas Eric Duncan already have died or are dying in the Block C area along 72 SKD Boulevard in Monrovia, CNN reported Monday. Duncan, whose death was announced by Texas Presbyterian...
View ArticleOpen Letter to Vladimir Putin on Ebola
Dear Mr. Putin, It is very odd to write you, but you have been a sane presence in a world the Western elite is tearing apart, and I am so deeply grateful. I am writing now because I have children and...
View ArticleShould we be worried about ebola becoming airborne? (University of Sydney)
(Source: University of Sydney) Should we be worried about ebola becoming airborne? By Professor Dominic Dwyer, Clinical Professor, University of Sydney Western Clinical School 14 October 2014...
View ArticleTreating Ebola
As a historian of epidemics, I study contagious crises from the safe distance of a century or more. But as a physician watching the spread of deadly Ebola, I have been agonizing over my responsibility...
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