What We Know (and Don't Know) About the South Korean MERS-CoV Outbreak

By Brian Honermann | Leave a Comment

Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) has been circulating since at least April 2012. Since then it has been confined largely to the Middle East (with some notable exceptions). The two weeks have seen the largest outbreak of the disease outside of the region, with at least 41 MERS-CoV cases and 4 deaths in South […]

Posted in Global Health ; Tagged: infectious disease, MERS, MERS-CoV, Quarantine, South Korea.

04.26.15

Sexually Transmitted Ebola: Another Reason to Stigmatize Survivors?

By Rebecca Reingold | Leave a Comment

As Ebola retreats in West Africa, medical investigators are focused on two women who died of the disease recently. Ruth Tugbah, a 44-year-old food seller with no known risk factors, developed Ebola in Monrovia, Liberia and died in late March. She was the first person to test positive for Ebola more than two weeks after […]

Posted in Global Health ; Tagged: Africa, disease surveillance, Ebola, HIV/AIDS, infectious diseases, Quarantine, STIs.

10.02.14

Ebola in the US: A Single Case Should Not Distract Us from the True Crisis in West Africa

By Brian Honermann | Leave a Comment

The author wrote this post in collaboration with Lawrence O. Gostin, Faculty Director, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. On September 30, 2014, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced the first diagnosis of Ebola made in the United States (previous US cases were medical evacuees, who were already known to be infected). […]

Posted in Global Health ; Tagged: CDC, centers for disease control and prevention, Ebola, infectious diseases, Quarantine.

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