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Treating Those Treating Ebola in Liberia
TheNewYorkTimes: A dedicated Ebola field hospital for health workers, is scheduled to open soon outside Monrovia, Liberia.
- November 6, 2014
- | Filed under Africa, Countermeasures, Policy & Initiatives, and Public Health
Engineers develop material for better detectors
MedicalNewsToday: University of Utah engineers have developed a new type of carbon nanotube material for handheld sensors that will be quicker and better at sniffing out explosives, deadly gases and illegal drugs.
- November 6, 2014
- | Filed under North America, Agents & Toxins, Countermeasures, and Research
Daily drugs show promise as added tool for HIV prevention: Prescriptions for those at substantial risk
- November 6, 2014
- | Filed under Countermeasures
Judge says nurse who treated Ebola patients does not have to be fully quarantined
TheWashingtonPost: A judge who had temporarily agreed to quarantine Kaci Hickox, a Maine nurse who had treated Ebola patients, ruled Friday that she did not have to have her movements restricted.
- November 3, 2014
- | Filed under North America, Countermeasures, and Public Health
Mounting a Good Offense against Measles
NewEnglandJournalofMedicine: Doctors and public health authorities need to renew their attention to measles, researchers from Emory Vaccine Center urge.
- November 3, 2014
- | Filed under North America, Countermeasures, Policy & Initiatives, and Public Health