CNN– The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a health advisory Thursday about the Marburg virus outbreak in Equatorial Guinea and Tanzania.
Marburg is a rare but highly fatal viral...
Scientists at Kent State are conducting research on how social media can be a valid means of research for measuring disease outbreaks.The project, known as “RAPID: Capturing Behavioral Response and Perceived...
News of the largest Ebola outbreak in history consumed the media last semester.Yet with no current cases of Ebola in the United States, Americans no longer see the virus in the daily news. However, the...
Students, faculty and staff can voice their opinion of Ebola media coverage in a 15 to 20 minute survey until Dec. 15.Lindsey Myers, a communication and information doctoral student, created the survey...
Students received emails from the [email protected] requesting participation in a survey “on the use of social media as a source of communication about Ebola” within the past few weeks.The survey will gather...
Video from Today.comAmber Vinson, the Kent State nursing graduate diagnosed with Ebola last month, revealed the guidelines she followed and the hurt she felt being classified as a “reckless...
Dallas nurse Amber Vinson’s visit to the Akron area days before she tested positive for the Ebola virus caused concern in the Kent community, especially since three of Vinson’s relatives work on the...
NEW YORK (AP) — A Doctors Without Borders physician who recently returned to the city after treating Ebola patients in West Africa was being tested Thursday for the virus.Mayor Bill de Blasio said results...
The reaction to the Ebola virus demonstrates an incredibly irritating aspect of our society: Our attention to news ends after reading the headline. Last week, news came that a woman from this area named...
Amber Vinson’s mother spoke about her daughter’s conditions in an interview that aired Tuesday, Oct. 21 on ABC’s Good Morning America.Debra Berry, Vinson’s mother, said she is “very confident”...
Amber Vinson, the Kent State nursing graduate diagnosed with Ebola, checked her temperature and followed protocol before traveling last weekend, her family said in an updated statement Sunday.The family...
More than 150 people are being monitored for Ebola because they might have come in contact with Amber Vinson, the second Texas nurse diagnosed with Ebola after treating Thomas Duncan, the first Ebola death...
