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1 Month To Stop Ebola Before It's 'Totally Out Of Control' - Global Aid NGO
The International Rescue Committee (IRC), on behalf of 34 NGOs battling Ebola in West Africa, has warned that the number of cases is doubling roughly every three weeks and the globe has only four weeks to stop the crisis from spiraling out of control...
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5 Health Challenges The World Will Face In 2015
What comes next for the future of the world's health?... But these are the issues reason would suggest will set the world's health agenda next year...
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A Deadly Virus Is Spreading Around Saudi Arabia And It Might Be About To Go Global
Reported cases of MERS have surged in Saudi Arabia in 2014 and no one seems to know why.
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A Disease That’s Three Times More Deadly Than SARS Just Reached The United States
A viral and often fatal respiratory disease in the Middle East has taken a turn for the worse and is spreading throughout the region, as well as to parts of Asia, Europe and now the United States. US officials have just confirmed that a man who fell ill after returning from Saudi Arabia about a week ago has Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS).
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A Few Ways The Government Shutdown Could Harm Your Health (And The World’s)
There’s going to be a lot — a lot — of coverage today on the federal shutdown, what it means and how long it might go on. I thought it might be worth quickly highlighting how it affects the parts of the government that readers here care most about: public health, global health, food safety and the spread of scary diseases. Read More »
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Africa: The Pros And Cons Of Social Media In Global Health
I was invited to moderate a panel at the World Health Summit in Berlin this week. [...]Within the first three hours of the summit, two other sessions had acknowledged that global health governance needed a shake-up and should move away from top-down, supply-driven models. Could social media, with their emphasis on dialogue and inherent transparency, be the solution? Read More »
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African Leaders Agree Steps To Fight Runaway Ebola Outbreak
West African leaders agreed on Friday to take stronger measures to try to bring the worst outbreak of Ebola under control and prevent it spreading outside the region, including steps to isolate rural communities ravaged by the disease. The World Health Organisation and medical charity Medicins Sans Frontieres said on Friday the outbreak, which has killed 729 people in four West African countries, was out of control and more resources were urgently needed to deal with it...
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Aged Care Facilities Nurturing Superbugs [Australia]
Nursing home residents appear to be significant carriers of superbug infections into hospitals, potentially putting other patients at risk. This is the latest finding in a series of Monash University studies that have investigated management of infection in Melbourne's aged care facilities, and the over-prescription of antibiotics to residents...
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Air Force Is Building Mini-Hospital In Liberia To Fight Ebola
The Air Force’s Air Combat Command has started installation of what its command surgeon, Brig. Gen. Sean Lee Murphy, described as “a mini-community hospital” in Liberia as part of the Defense Department’s response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa...
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Antibiotic-Resistant Superbugs Could Send Britain 'Back To The Dark Ages'
BRITAIN is facing the real prospect of heading “back to the dark ages” because of superbugs that are resistant to antibiotics...
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Bacteria’s Ability To Resist Drugs An International Issue
Global surveillance needed | Countries take action on antibiotic use...
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Big Data: Benefits, Drawbacks In Addressing Ebola
An Ebola outbreak showed the importance of public health awareness and meaningful interventions, but big data’s role in this has yet to be seen...
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Boston Trackers Chart Ebola Outbreak
HealthMap.org, a high-tech infectious disease tracking system run by Boston epidemiologists, has emerged as a critical tool in the battle against Ebola in West Africa — tracking its rapid and unusual spread ahead of official reports by monitoring thousands of local news and social media sources...
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Can Public Health Data Mapping And Visualization Transform Healthcare Globally? [Australia]
Laurie Hawkins, project manager of the Victorian Human Services Directory in Australia discusses how public health data mapping can improve global health...
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CDC Tracks Cell Phone Location Data To Halt Ebola
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is tracking the approximate locations of cell phone users in West Africa who dial emergency call centers in an effort to predict the onset and spread of Ebola outbreaks...It’s one of the high-tech approaches the U.S. government is piloting to stop the spread of the disease...
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