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...virus can be passed from one person to another a number of ways--primarily through direct contact. Scientists have recently isolated Ebola viruses from the sweat, blood, saliva and lung tissue of those sorry individuals autopsied during the 1995 Ebola outbreak in Zaire. That epidemic was brought under control through a strategy that sought to limit the skin-to-skin contacts between infected individuals and their healthy, living caretakers...
Laurie Garrett is a reporter for Newsday and the author of Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the 1995 Ebola outbreak in Kikwit, Zaire...
...current outbreak in northern Uganda once again finds the virus taking advantage of poor medical facilities and funeral practices. And, once again, classic public health efforts are in place to bring the epidemic under control. Like its predecessor in Zaire, this outbreak has come to world attention months after it began, and only when health care workers, including foreigners, have succumbed. The full scope of the epidemic, including evidence it may also be expanding in Sudan and southward towards Uganda's capital city, Kampala, has yet to be determined. Regardless of how large its scope may be, however, the same...
...expanded its outreach program for the vaccines during the last school year following a flu outbreak in January of 1999, according to Harvard Infection Control Surveillance Officer and nurse practitioner Donna V. Campbell...
...institution of higher learning, discussion is vital to our campus's mission. We can't just discuss the safe issues. We must be willing to confront the difficult ones. Say that Ariel Sharon's visit to the Temple Mount is directly responsible for the recent outbreak of violence. Say that Israel has the right to use all powers at its disposal to defend its soldiers and citizens against mob violence. Say you support a Palestinian state. Say you oppose any kind of Palestinian sovereignty in Jerusalem. But don't say that you don't want to talk about it. Those...