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Mar 14
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Dr. Céline Gounder
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An American doctor with Ebola was evacuated to Berlin. The U.S. has biocontainment units.
What happened on Tuesday: the medevac, the 50 clinics, and what the State Department said about USAID.
May 19
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Dr. Céline Gounder
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CDC Used Title 42 to Ban Travelers Over Ebola. Its Own Order Explains Why That Won’t Work.
Title 42 sat unused for decades, then became an immigration tool during COVID. Now the CDC has invoked it for Ebola, a disease the order itself says…
May 18
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Dr. Céline Gounder
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The Smartphone Minerals War That Destroyed Congo's Health System — Just in Time for Ebola
Rwanda’s mineral extraction, America’s aid cuts, and the most money-driven conflict one epidemiologist has ever seen.
May 18
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Dr. Céline Gounder
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The Ebola Disinformation Playbook Activated in Under 12 Hours
Within hours of the Bundibugyo PHEIC, the same conspiracy theories, supplement sales, and chain emails surfaced. Here’s the playbook and how to spot it.
May 17
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Dr. Céline Gounder
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Hantavirus risk is genuinely low. The Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak in DRC — with no vaccine, no treatment, and gutted international response capacity — is…
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A Cruise Ship Hantavirus Outbreak Has People Worried About NYC Rats. They Shouldn’t Be.
The Andes virus on the MV Hondius can spread person to person. NYC’s rats carry a different hantavirus nobody tests for and a bacterial infection that’s…
May 14
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The 7th Grade Science Class That Could Have Prevented a Lot of Bad Medical Decisions
SARS-CoV-2 and Andes virus aren't even in the same realm. That matters more than most people realize.
May 14
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How Tobacco Money Bought Mango Vapes
The FDA authorized fruit-flavored e-cigarettes for the first time after the tobacco industry donated millions, regulators were fired, and the president…
May 14
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Why Cruise Ships Can’t Shake Norovirus
France just confined 1,700 people on a cruise ship after a norovirus outbreak. Here’s why these ships are so vulnerable and what travelers can do about…
May 13
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Can Andes virus spread through the air?
Andes virus doesn’t spread like COVID, but saliva, breathing, and ventilation still matter.
May 13
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Doctors Got 2% of the Views
1,522 hantavirus videos were watched over a billion times in 18 days. Doctors accounted for 2% of the views. The algorithm decided the rest.
May 12
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We're Talking About Doing the Dishes, Not the Marriage
Media coverage is focused on quarantine logistics and transmission details. But the real story is that millions of Americans are reliving COVID, and no…
May 12
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The CDC’s New Management Style: Announce It on TV, Enforce the Opposite
On TV, the CDC has no hiring freeze, no communications pause, and no WHO restrictions. Inside the agency, all three are functionally in place.
May 12
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Hantavirus Patients Are in U.S. Quarantine. There's No Approved Test or Treatment for Them.
Eighteen cruise ship passengers are now in U.S. quarantine or monitoring for Andes hantavirus. There is no validated diagnostic test and no approved…
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