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Opinion
What Having Ebola Is Really Like

Craig Spencer, MD, talks about the symptoms and his treatment at Bellevue Hospital

Nov 11, 2024
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Opinion
An Emergency Doc's Experience Contracting Ebola

Craig Spencer reflects on his 2014 Ebola diagnosis after volunteering for Doctors Without Borders

Nov 08, 2024
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Remdesivir May Keep Ebola Out of the Bedroom

Won't help clinical disease, but phase II trial shows it reduces virus levels in survivors' semen

Nov 19, 2020
ASTMH over a photo of a physician examining children in West Africa
COVID Deaths Drop in the Hospitalized; Miracle Mouthwash? New Organ Discovered

A daily roundup of news on COVID-19 and the rest of medicine

Oct 21, 2020
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Quercetin: New Hype for COVID-19?

Parallels drawn with early data on hydroxychloroquine

Jul 01, 2020
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ACIP: Offer Ebola Vax to Healthcare Workers With Exposure Risk

Unanimous vote by CDC committee included debate about Ebola vaccine in pregnant women

Feb 26, 2020
The VSVG-EBOV-GP Ebola vaccine over a microscope image of the virus
Serious Illnesses in Nebraska Tied to Exosome Therapy

New trend in unapproved stem cell therapy led to sepsis in some patients

Dec 16, 2019
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Still No Clarity on Merck's Ebola Vax in Congo

Data suggest effectiveness but too many variables to be sure

Oct 30, 2018
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Hepatitis A Outbreak to Greet IDWeek

Homeless bear brunt of disease; delegates at low risk

Oct 03, 2017
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Five CDC Cartoons, Out of Context

Agency likes to keep it simple in illustrating infectious disease

Dec 18, 2015
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Ebola Virus Lives in Eye Long After Blood Clears

'Cured' in October, back in hospital in December

May 08, 2015
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Ebola Diary: On the Ground in Sierra Leone, Part 5

Last installment in a CDC fellow's account of her experiences tracking the spread of the Ebola virus in West Africa.

Jan 08, 2015
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Ebola Response: Slowed by a 'Perfect Storm' of Setbacks

WASHINGTON -- The world was taken by surprise by the West Africa Ebola outbreak and has been scrambling ever since to catch up, with many setbacks and only a few bright spots in the picture, international experts said at the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.

Sep 08, 2014
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