October 23, 2014

What’s in the Needle #2: Rabies and Ebola Combined

On: October 23, 2014

[Y]ou might wonder whether or not I’ve added rabies just to put a ‘scare’ in my readers, but the truth is that the DoD, the NIH, NIAID, and Thomas Jefferson University have teamed up to produce a genuine vaccine candidate built on the rabies vaccine. In a way, it makesContinue Reading

A New Twist to an Old Serpent? Ebola reinfection?

By: Sharon

On: October 23, 2014

In: Ebola, Emerging Diseases

[I]n my upcoming book on Ebola, I often refer to the virus as a ‘blood serpent’. This isn’t hyperbole or fear-raking on my part, it’s just an apt description of the virus’s appearance and predilection. It also reflects what I as a Christian who just happens to understand a bitContinue Reading