Kaiser Nurses in California Plan to Strike Over Ebola – Bloomberg
[T]his just in…if you live in California and need a nurse, you may find yourself out of luck. Nurses in the Kaiser Permanente hospital chain have decided to strike until their demands for Ebola training are met. Who can blame these brave women and men? So far, the training and equipment providedContinue Reading
Is a giant virus making us stupid?
[D]iminished cognitive functioning has generally been considered a consequence of either genetic inheritance or environmental pressure, but researchers at Johns Hopkins and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) have discovered something that everyone else had missed: a virus. While conducting a study on cognition, the scientists put volunteers through cognitive testsContinue Reading
El Salvador chikungunya cases near 100,000, Dominican Republic at half-a-million | Outbreak News Today
[C]hikungunya infections continue to rise in Central America, with the Dominican Republic reporting half a million infections as of October 31. That’s 500,000 reservoirs for mosquitoes, which means the infection rate will probably continue to climb until everyone who is not protected with DEET or some other repellent is positiveContinue Reading