EV-D68? Greenfield PD investigates death of 4-year-old with flu-like symptoms

On: October 16, 2014

[P]olice in Greenfield, Indiana are investigating the sudden death of a 4-year-old boy whose parents said he’d been complaining of ‘flu-like symptoms’ but had seemed fine at bedtime. Indiana has already reported around two dozen cases of enterovirus D68, a disease which has been sweeping the nation for the pastContinue Reading

A Dismal Halloween: MoBS Publishes their Ebola Predictions for Oct. 31

By: Sharon

On: October 16, 2014

In: Ebola, Emerging Diseases

If you’re not a science geek, then you probably don’t know that MoBS stands for Modeling of Biological and Socio-Technical Systems. In other words, they’re really good with statistics and predictive extrapolations. Honestly, I wasn’t all that keen on the studying Statistics back in college (partly because my graduate assistantContinue Reading

Too Much Protective Gear? Really?

By: Sharon

On: October 16, 2014

In: Biological Threats, Ebola, Emerging Diseases

[N]ot surprisingly, Texas Health Presbyterian is fighting back this morning, protesting claims made yesterday by the Nurses’ Union in Texas that staff at Texas Health were given inadequate training and equipment. But Tom Frieden had this to say: Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,Continue Reading