Did the DoD prepare for a US Ebola pandemic before April?

On: October 17, 2014

In: Biological Threats, Ebola, Emerging Diseases

[M]any will probably accuse me of wearing my tinfoil hat while I write this, but I’m about to ask a legitimate question: With Ebola only beginning to spread in West Africa, why did Congress issue biological diagnostics kits to our National Guard in all 50 states before April? Oh, youContinue Reading

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

By: Sharon

On: October 16, 2014

In: Emerging Diseases

[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

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