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Malaria to fight Ebola? 

9/6/2016

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My latest at Mental Floss--can a malaria co-infection help Ebola patients survive? 
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New article--why does Ebola keep popping up? 

4/25/2016

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New at Quartz, Ebola resurgences in West Africa suggest the virus can linger longer than expected. 
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New articles!

10/22/2015

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I've been a bit remiss at posting things here, but three recent articles to note:

Mental Floss.com, article. A Potential New Treatment for Bats with Deadly White-Nose Syndrome. August 2015.

Slate.com, article. Why the United States Is Plagued With Plague. October 2015.

Slate.com, article. America's Ebola panic.  October 2015. 

I'm also quoted in a Gizmodo piece about HIV denial, "The Deadly Legacy of HIV Truthers." 
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Quarantine: measles versus Ebola 

1/15/2015

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New post! Why quarantine for measles is critical...and quarantine for Ebola was not. 
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Ebola and Lassa fever in the Huffington Post

11/17/2014

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I'm quoted in the Huffington Post: Ebola's True Toll Is Still Untallied As Another Deadly Fever Looms. 
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Outbreak News radio show returns

11/3/2014

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...and myself and Vince Racaniello are guests on this week's show. 
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New at Slate: we'll always have epidemics

11/3/2014

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Ebola will not be the last. No matter what we do, we'll always have new epidemics pop up. The key is to contain them quick and early, and to work with human behavior. 
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New article: conspiracy theories that weren't 

11/1/2014

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Both Mike Adams, "The Health Ranger," and the NY Post suggest the CDC has done something nefarious by "removing" informational posters describing droplet-borne transmission of Ebola. Only, no such thing happened. The whole story here. 
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New article: Granny's mean pot of bushmeat stew

10/29/2014

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So much of the conversation about "bushmeat" ends up in judgement of African practices of eating and hunting--but we do much the same things here in the U.S. as well. I discuss my own great-grandmother's recipes in this new post.
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Taking down The Hot Zone

10/26/2014

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Have a new post up at io9 on myths from The Hot Zone. 
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