Roundup on Ebola
There are so many articles of interest on the subject of Ebola that I think I’ll just do a roundup: My guess is that the suspected Ebola case in DC will turn out to be a false alarm, if the … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Health
Did Duncan know he had been exposed to Ebola…
…by the time he left Liberia, and did he lie about it in a form he signed on leaving the country? That’s the meme that’s been spreading, and it’s now widely believed. I don’t buy it. I’m writing a piece … Continue reading →
More on how the Dallas hospital may have dropped the ball on the Ebola patient
Here’s some new information which, if true, would further implicate the Dallas hospital that sent Thomas Eric Duncan home the first time he came to the ER there. The story comes from Duncan’s nephew Joe Weeks, who seems to be … Continue reading →
Travel ban from West Africa?
Now, why ever would we do that?: For now, the administration is rejecting calls for a visa ban for West Africans. “I don’t believe that’s something we’re considering,” a State Department spokeswoman told reporters. Health officials have described the Texas … Continue reading →
The perils of being a Good Samaritan in Liberia
This is one of the saddest things I’ve ever read. It’s an account of how patient zero, Thomas Eric Duncan, contracted Ebola in Liberia. But more than that, it’s a story that’s all too typical of the tragedy of this … Continue reading →
More on the Dallas Ebola patient zero and the hospital
There is little question in my mind that Duncan, Dallas’ Ebola patient zero, knew he most likely had Ebola when he got sick, and particularly as he got sicker. His first trip to the hospital, and their negligent (perhaps even … Continue reading →
Maybe we should follow Nigeria’s lead with Ebola
No, that’s not a joke headline. Nigeria has done fairly well in containing the spread of the disease, and we might think about copying them. Nipping this in the bud, while the number of exposed people is very small, is … Continue reading →
Dallas’ patient zero…
…came to this country from Liberia knowing he had been closely exposed to an Ebola patient in his home country [hat tip: Artfldgr]. Mr. Duncan, the first person to develop symptoms outside Africa during the current epidemic, had direct contact … Continue reading →
The PC treatment of disease
In the early 90s I wrote a research paper on HIV and contact tracing. Initially, I had assumed that HIV would be treated in the same way as other diseases spread by sexual contact such as syphilis, and that contact … Continue reading →
Ebola: questions for the CDC—and the government
Commenter “Wolla Dalbo” has some questions the CDC should be asking itself. Remember, the Ebola patient in the US went to the Dallas hospital with symptoms and was sent home only to return again several days later, much sicker. Wolla … Continue reading →
First Ebola case diagnosed in the US
It was inevitable that it would happen: a traveler to the US from West Africa has been diagnosed as having Ebola, having begun to exhibit symptoms about four days after arriving in this country. He has been hospitalized in Dallas … Continue reading →
Autism and belief: Part II
[NOTE: Part I is here.] It turns out that the case of autistic 13-year-old author Naoki Higashida is more complex than that of Rom Houben. When I Googled his book (The Reason I Jump) online, I was expecting (hoping, anyway) … Continue reading →