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Ebola Virus

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2014

    Ebola in Dallas: October 21

    With 17 days until the last person in direct contact with one of Dallas' three Ebola patients finishes monitoring, here's the latest: The condition of the patients: Amber Vinson's mother, Debra Berry, discussed her daughter's condition on Good Morning America early Tuesday. Mom says Vinson remains ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 16, 2014

    Media Still Misstating Science on Ebola Transmission

    News media continue to present a picture of Ebola transmission that is significantly inaccurate by omission. They assert much more certainty than the science justifies. The version repeated like a mantra in most accounts -- only direct physical contact with an infectious person -- is wrong on its fa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 16, 2014

    Dallas May Soon Declare Ebola Disaster But THERE'S STILL NO REASON TO PANIC!!

    On Thursday, Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins, Mayor Mike Rawlings, and members of city health authorities convened for an emergency commissioners court meeting to officially declare disaster in Dallas. But after a private debate, and a significantly tamer public discussion, the court agreed that wh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2014

    CDC Boss Frieden, "That Is Not in the Cards."

    Thomas R. Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, speaking on 7/31/2014: "It is not a potential of Ebola spreading widely in the U.S. That is not in the cards." "We have quarantine stations ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2014

    24 Hours Later, CDC Still Doesn't Know How Nurse Contracted Ebola

    The news Sunday was disturbing. A Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital nurse -- confirmed Monday to be 26-year-old Nina Pham -- had contracted Ebola. Pham was not one 10 people being monitored for close contact with Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States, nor wa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2014

    Dallas Healthcare Worker Tests Positive For Ebola

    According to reports from multiple news outlets and the Centers for Disease Control, a healthcare worker -- reportedly a nurse -- who was in contact with Thomas Eric Duncan has tested positive for the Ebola virus. The test was performed by the Texas Department of State Health Services and is being c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2014

    Man Showing "Ebola Like Symptoms" Has Been Isolated in Frisco

    A man currently being taken from a Frisco Care Now Clinic to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas is reportedly experiencing Ebola-like symptoms. The city of Frisco released the following statement: "At 12:32 p.m. today, October 8, Frisco dispatch received a call from Care Now, 301 Main S ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 7, 2014

    John Wiley Price "Knows What Happened" at Presbyterian in Ebola Case

    Just before heading into a private executive session to address what he called "security issues" related to the Ebola virus' arrival in Dallas, County Commissioner John Wiley Price told his fellow commissioners and County Judge Clay Jenkins what led to the temporary release of an Ebola-stricken Thom ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 1, 2014

    Even the CDC Isn't Totally Sold on its Own Proclamations on How Ebola Is Transmitted

    Today in multiple stories, our only and always comforting local daily, The Dallas Morning News, reiterates the official public line of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control: that physical contact with a person suffering symptoms of Ebola disease is the only mechanism of transmission by which the Ebol ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 30, 2014

    UPDATE: Ebola Has Landed in Dallas

    UPDATE, 3:44 p.m.: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed that a patient at Dallas' Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital is the first case of Ebola confirmed in the United States. ORIGINAL POST: Dallas County Health and Human Services gave an update Tuesday morning on the status ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 7, 2014

    Texas Researcher Might Have Some Treatments for Ebola, Needs Money

    Ever since a doctor from Fort Worth became one of two Americans recently infected with the Ebola virus on a mercy trip in Liberia, the Western public has developed a renewed interest in the rare disease, often described as incurable. For researchers like University of Texas virologist Dr. Thomas G ... More >>

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    June 22, 2000

    From Russia, with bugs

    Scientists from the former Soviet Union's top-secret biological weapons lab join with Dallas researchers to fight a common enemy: the deadly Ebola virus

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