Posts Tagged ‘ebola virus’

The current Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa is the largest since the disease was first discovered in 1976. To be sure, Ebola is a scary disease with no known vaccine or antidote and a very high fatality rate.

To put the Ebola epidemic into perspective, there are currently about 900 known cases in the world today. Most of those cases are in West Africa, but recently Thomas Duncan died of Ebola in Dallas. And at least two nurses …

We are being bombarded with information about the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa and the really frightening news that it is now in the US. And we wonder, “Who will be next?”

We hear people like Margaret Chan, the Chief of the World Health Organization (WHO) tell us that the Ebola epidemic is “out of control.”[1] But what does that mean? According to Dr. Tim Lahey, MD, an infectious disease specialist, there are currently about 900 known cases …