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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...
World
The Mitt Romney Gaffe-o-Meter 1 | EUROPE Mitt Romney's seven-day tour of England, Israel and Poland--during which he met with world leaders and organized a...
CDC Publishes Wedding Day Survival Guide
Sometimes, one of the world's only official repositories of smallpox wants to have its fun, too
Virological Trade: Screening Imported Wildlife for Emerging Microbes
Border customs agents are on the look out for many things: illegal drugs, stolen goods, smuggled liquor and sometimes even people. Add one more target:...
Nathan Wolfe
Nathan Wolfe runs the CIA of infectious disease. The swashbuckling virologist is the founder and director of the Global Viral Forecasting Initiative (GVFI), an...
A Deadly Mystery
There's nothing like an outbreak of Ebola virus to guarantee screaming headlines. That's largely due to the mid-1990s bestseller The Hot Zone, which described...
Epidemiology: Forging the Future: The Disease Detectives
PLANNING FOR THE PANDEMIC Sandro Galea is not your typical epidemiologist. Instead of studying microbes, he studies minds--human minds and how they might respond...
Inside the Spore Wars
Had you listened to President Bush on Jan. 28, 2003, you might think the U.S. would have a bustling biodefense industry by now. In a State of the Union speech...
The Race To Contain A Virus
In recorded history, no disease has jumped the species barrier to infect humans, caused an epidemic and then never threatened us again--not without the discovery...
Averting an Outbreak
In recorded history, no disease has jumped the species barrier to infect humans, caused an epidemic, and then never threatened us again—not without the discovery...
