We Are Making Ebola Outbreaks Worse by Cutting Down Forests
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/07/we-are-making-ebola-worse
In a relentless sweep across Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, the largest outbreak of Ebola, a virus that causes dramatic internal bleeding and often a hasty death, has now claimed 467 lives, from 759 infections, since February this year, according ...
Measles outbreaks spreading
http://wkzo.com/news/articles/2014/jul/08/measles-outbreaks-spreading/
The CDC blames failure to vaccinate for measles outbreaks in 20-states so far this year, the most in 20-years. WMU Virologist Karim Essani says combine those who aren't vaccinated with those who cannot be vaccinated and the disease exploits the ...
China's vast urban migration is creating new measles outbreaks
http://qz.com/230782/chinas-vast-urban-migration-is-creating-new-measles-outbreaks/?utm_medium=App.net&utm_source=PourOver
What's behind the outbreak? Some experts say China's nearly 250 million migrant workers, who have moved in recent years from rural areas to jobs in urban centers, and whose families may have missed country-wide vaccination drives because of their ...
CDC effort to monitor antibiotic use during outbreaks
http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20140707/BLOG/307079995/cdc-effort-to-monitor-antibiotic-use-during-outbreaks
A new government initiative beginning this month looks to create the first nationwide prescribing index to allow healthcare providers to monitor the use of antibiotics among various facilities and identify areas where a potential outbreak of ...
Ebola virus: Can nations stop deadliest ever outbreak from spreading?
http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/03/health/ebola-outbreak-west-africa/
(CNN) -- African ministers and health experts are meeting in Ghana with one thing on their minds: how to stop the biggest ever outbreak of the Ebola virus from extending its deadly reach still further. The World Health Organization has warned that ...
WHO : ?We can beat this Ebola outbreak?
http://www.euronews.com/2014/07/05/who-we-can-beat-this-ebola-outbreak/
?We've had outbreaks of Ebola before, we've been able to stop them, we know the way to do it. This is a bigger challenge than previously because it's in three countries and it's several small scattered outbreaks, but the principles are the same. We can ...
Iraq prepares for cholera, diarrheal disease outbreaks
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/279058.php
Cholera is endemic in northern Iraq, and now, because of the current violence that has forced half a million people from their homes in the autonomous region of Kurdistan, there is a risk of a repeat of the outbreaks that occurred in 2007, 2008 and ...
The meningitis outbreak we weren't ready for
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-miller-meningitis-drug-approval-20140702-story.html
During the last two years, there have been a couple of outbreaks and sporadic cases of bacterial meningitis that federal health agencies failed to address with sufficient aggressiveness. It could have been much worse, and the experience should serve as ...
