Paul Chehade – Ebola virus in the United States of America. The government has been incompetent in the face of the Ebola threat. But our other institutions are dropping the ball, too. What inexcusable incompetence. The fact that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention allowed a nurse who had cared for an Ebola patient […]
Can Ebola be transmitted through the air? Depends on which expert you ask investigation reveals
The White House issued a statement about the Ebola virus on October 12, 2014 which claims that the virus cannot be transmitted by the air. Well not exactly, it would seem. t least there is some doubt out there among the various experts. “Dr. C.J. Peters, who fought a 1989 outbreak affecting research monkeys in […]
Miot Hospital Answers Ebola Scare
The recent outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in Africa is certainly creating a scare the world over, and in India too. People are afraid and wild rumours are doing the rounds on social media – about an Ebola-caused death in Bangalore and claims of ‘alternate medicine’ providing cures including bathing in salt water and […]
Dallas hospital confirms Ebola, first U.S. victim
Ebola is here. On September 30, 2014 at 3:22 PM, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention notified the media that the patient in isolation at the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas did, in fact, have the Ebola virus. Ebola has been spreading largely unchecked throughout West Africa, and there have been no attempts […]
How prepared are American cities for an Ebola outbreak?
As West Africa struggles to deal with an Ebola epidemic, people around the world begin to wonder how likely Ebola is to spread to other countries and continents and how prepared their communities are to deal with it if it does. The Ebola virus that has caused 1,200 deaths in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, and […]
C.A.S.S. homeless shelter has gone to the birds in Phoenix
On any given day the Central Arizona Shelter Services (C.A.S.S) helps hundreds of homeless individuals living in Maricopa County, Arizona. In fact if it were not for C.A.S.S these people would literally have no where to go (see video: Moving Life Forward http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlht6ZcCmzk and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp76S8Nxw6M). The C.A.S.S campus, located at 232 S 12th Avenue in […]