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Scores Isolated After New Ebola Outbreak in Uganda
(KAMPALA Uganda) — Scores of Ugandans were isolated on Thursday to prevent the spread of a new outbreak of Ebola which has already killed three people Uganda...
That’s Karma: Man Gets Ebola After Stealing Infected Patient’s Cell Phone
Stealing is wrong. Stealing from hospital patients is very wrong. Swiping a cell phone from an Ebola victim is just plain dumb. Western Uganda is in the midst of...
Urban Ebola? Why the Latest Outbreak in Uganda Raises Worries
Perhaps 1,850 people have been diagnosed with Ebola hemorrhagic fever since the virus was first identified 36 years ago in the Democratic Republic of Congo. (To...
Ebola Outbreak in Uganda: President Warns Against Physical Contact
This month, 14 Ugandans have died from an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in the Kibaale district in the western part of the country. The outbreak prompted...
Fears of a New Ebola Outbreak
When the Ebola virus resurfaced in the Democratic Republic of Congo earlier this year, health officials hoped to contain the outbreak to the east of the central...
EBOLA IS BACK IN THE U.S.
The folks in Alice, Texas, have good reason to be nervous around monkeys. Six years ago, several Philippine macaques imported by the Texas Primate Center in...
WHERE DOES EBOLA HIDE?
WHEN TWO CHILDREN FROM THE remote village of Mayibout, in Gabon, discovered a dead chimpanzee lying in the undergrowth near their home a few weeks ago, they were...
What If a Deadly New Virus Jumped from Animals to Humans?
This is a "what if” interview from the World Economic Forum’s Risk Response Network To view the rest of the series click here In a rapidly interconnected world...
David Quammen
The next great plague is out there, probably in a chimpanzee or a chicken, waiting to make the leap to humans. In his new book, Spillover: Animal Infections and...
David Quammen Talks Life on the Front Lines of Virology
The author of 'Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic' talks to TIME about the origin of Ebola, the threat of sick animals and some...
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Global Update: Link to African Ebola Found in Bats Suggests Virus Is More Widespread
to Zaire Ebola virus. ...
Concerns over' in- the- air' Ebola
Canadian scientists have shown that the deadliest form of the Ebola virus could be transmitted by air between species. ...
Ebola Outbreak Kills 3 in Uganda
New outbreak is just 40 miles from the Ugandan capital Kampala. ...
