Mapping Ebola Outbreaks: Area of Infection Is Way Bigger Than Previously ...
https://news.vice.com/article/an-estimated-22-million-people-live-in-areas-at-risk-for-future-ebola-transmissions
Bats and wild primates are believed to be the main source of human outbreaks of the deadly Ebola virus, including the one that has ravaged Western Africa with hemorrhagic fever for the past six months and taken more than 2,100 lives. While scientists ...
Experts keeping a eye on virus outbreaks in other states
http://lancasteronline.com/news/local/experts-keeping-a-eye-on-virus-outbreaks-in-other-states/article_4b39ca44-3835-11e4-8303-001a4bcf6878.html
Though this enterovirus strain is less common than others, it has caused outbreaks in the past, too, in some areas of the country, said Dr. Frances Gross, chief of general pediatrics at Lancaster General Health. There's always a chance it could come to ...
Ebola outbreak is a unique 'perfect storm'
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/09/08/ebola-africa-outbreak-treatment/15312883/
The current Ebola outbreak in West Africa is distinctly different from any over the last 40 years, several public health officials said Monday, making it far more challenging to control. As of Friday, 3,944 people had been confirmed infected with Ebola ...
Virus Outbreak Sends 1000 Kids To Hospital
http://news.sky.com/story/1332049/virus-outbreak-sends-1000-kids-to-hospital
Experts say the current outbreak is spreading quickly. According to USA Today, some 300 cases have been reported in Kansas City, Missouri, while at Children's Hospital Colorado in Denver, Colorado, some 900 kids have reportedly been admitted in the ...
Measles Outbreak 2014: 592 Cases Reported In US After Disease 'Eliminated' In ...
http://www.ibtimes.com/measles-outbreak-2014-592-cases-reported-us-after-disease-eliminated-2000-1681352
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention attributed many of the 592 measles cases and 18 outbreaks in the U.S. this year to parents not getting their children vaccinated. Since the CDC said there were no measles cases in the U.S. in 2000, there ...
IDPH Watching for Possible Outbreaks of Circulating Enterovirus
http://www.wifr.com/home/headlines/IDPH-Watching-for-Possible-Outbreaks-of-Circulating-Enterovirus-274379421.html
SPRINGFIELD (WIFR) -- Several hospitals in Illinois and Missouri have recently reported clusters of severe respiratory illness in community members, especially children. Testing of some cases by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention identified ...
Congo outbreak of Ebola unrelated to escalating West African epidemic
http://news.sciencemag.org/africa/2014/09/congo-outbreak-ebola-unrelated-escalating-west-african-epidemic
A new Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is unrelated to the 6-month-old epidemic in West Africa, a genetic analysis has confirmed. Although the virus belongs to the same species, Ebola-Zaire, the strain is genetically so ...
Grim Ebola prediction: Outbreak is unstoppable for now, doc says
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/09/04/grim-ebola-prediction-outbreak-is-unstoppable-for-now-doc-says/
Dr. Daniel Lucey, an expert on viral outbreaks and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Medical Center, recently spent three weeks in Sierra Leone, one of the countries affected by the Ebola outbreak. While there, Lucey evaluated and treated ...
