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What Twitter Can Tell Us About Ebola

Written on December 4, 2014. Posted in Breaking News, Business News, Health News, Opinion News.

The Ebola virus is spreading and mutating, and so is the chatter about it on social media. Luminoso, an MIT Media Lab spinoff that helps companies monitor consumer sentiment, has been tracking tweets about Ebola. Luminoso’s software reveals trends –- some worrisome –- that show how online conversations may be shaping public opinion. Between August 31 and October 15, 2014, Twitter users posted 5.4 million tweets that mentioned Ebola. That’s fewer...

German Hospital Discharges Ebola Patient

Written on December 4, 2014. Posted in Breaking News, Health News, World News.

A German hospital says a Ugandan doctor it treated after he contracted Ebola while working in Sierra Leone has been cured and discharged. Frankfurt’s University Hospital said Thursday that the man, whose name hasn’t been released, was released on Nov. 19 and is now with his family. He was admitted on Oct. 3 and was critically ill for a time… (read more)

American arrives at Atlanta hospital from West Africa for Ebola testing

Written on December 4, 2014. Posted in Breaking News, Health News, Travel, USA News.

Dec 4 (Reuters) – A U.S. healthcare worker who may have been exposed to Ebola in West Africa arrived at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta early on Thursday for testing and observation, the hospital said. The patient, who has not been identified, was flown from West Africa and will be monitored to see if he or she has been infected with the virus, the hospital said… (read more)

The First Attempt to Digitize Ebola Health Records

Written on December 4, 2014. Posted in Breaking News, Health News, Science News, World News.

Ebola treatment in West Africa is going digital. Keeping detailed patient records during the Ebola outbreak can be a nightmare. Currently, health care workers use very basic methods, ranging from scanning files to writing on white boards to calling results across rooms to simple memorization. But the International Rescue Committee (IRC), a crisis organization, is about to change that by bringing in electronic health records to its new Ebola treatment...

WHO ‘wasted precious time’ over Ebola

Written on December 3, 2014. Posted in Breaking News, Business News, Personal Safety, World News.

The Belgian microbiologist who co-discovered the Ebola virus has accused the World Health Organization of dithering in reacting to the deadly epidemic and accused the international community of “hysteria.” Peter Piot said that while an initial delay in confirming the outbreak could be expected, there was no excuse for waiting a further five months before acknowledging the extent of the crisis… (read more)

Ebola stigma hindering medical response, says Red Cross

Written on December 3, 2014. Posted in Breaking News, Health News, Opinion News, Travel, World News.

Stigma against travellers from Ebola-infected countries is hindering the fight against the disease, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) says. The head of the IFRC, Mr Elhadj As Sy, warned that travel bans were preventing his organisation’s medical workers from dealing with the outbreak. He urged governments to avoid acting out of fear and misinformation… (read more)

Mass. General Confirms Patient Has Malaria, Not Ebola

Written on December 3, 2014. Posted in Breaking News, Health News, Personal Safety, USA News.

BOSTON (CBS) – A patient at Massachusetts General Hospital suspected of possibly having Ebola has tested negative for the deadly virus. MGH confirmed just before 1 p.m. on Wednesday that the initial test for Ebola is negative. The patient did test positive for malaria, the hospital said… (read more)

NBC’s Dr. Nancy Snyderman Apologizes For Violating Ebola Quarantine

Written on December 3, 2014. Posted in Breaking News, Opinion News, USA News.

NBC News’ chief medical editor, Dr. Nancy Snyderman, apologized Wednesday morning for violating her voluntary Ebola quarantine, asserting that she had broken the trust of many Americans. “Good people can make mistakes,” she said in an interview with “Today” co-host Matt Lauer. “I stepped outside the boundaries of what I promised to do and what the public expected of me, and for that I’m sorry.” (read...

Ebola costs Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone $2 billion: World Bank

Written on December 3, 2014. Posted in Breaking News, Business News, Government News, World News.

WASHINGTON/MONROVIA – The World Bank on Tuesday pledged further assistance to Liberia, the country worst hit by Ebola, and revealed that the epidemic would cost more than $2 billion across the region, causing once-booming economies to slow down or shrink. The report comes as the World Bank Group’s president, Jim Yong Kim, begins a two-day visit to West Africa to discuss ways of addressing the outbreak, which has already killed more...

Ebola crisis: Appeal to reopen schools

Written on December 3, 2014. Posted in Breaking News, Health News, World News.

Schools need to rapidly reopen in three Ebola-hit West African states as some five million children are being denied an education, a campaign group says. Education had become “one of the first casualties of the crisis” in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, it added. The “most marginalised” would bear the brunt of the crisis for generations to come if “safe schools” were not reopened, the group said. Ebola was...