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Month: September 2014

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Virus Crossing Oceans: Chikungunya in the Americas

September 29, 2014January 25, 2023 Tobi Skotnes

While countries in Africa are battling the current Ebola outbreak, the Western Hemisphere is battling a chikungunya outbreak that has reached record numbers: 700,000 suspected cases

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Virus Crossing Oceans: Chikungunya in the Americas

September 29, 2014January 25, 2023 Tobi Skotnes

While countries in Africa are battling the current Ebola outbreak, the Western Hemisphere is battling a chikungunya outbreak that has reached record numbers: 700,000 suspected cases

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Epidemics MOOC: Expanding Free Access to Education

September 24, 2014January 25, 2023 Emily Cohn

MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) have been heralded as the future of learning. The New York Times dubbed 2012 as ‘The Year of the MOOC’.

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Holding Our Breath: Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis

September 11, 2014January 25, 2023 Sumiko Mekaru

A man with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) has refused treatment and is walking around Santa Barbara, California.  A warrant has been put out for his

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Estimating the fatality of the 2014 West African Ebola Outbreak

September 10, 2014January 25, 2023 Maia Majumder

Estimating the fatality of the 2014 West African Ebola Outbreak “Case fatality rate” – or CFR – is a term that’s been tossed around a

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VacciNerds Explain: 5 things you probably didn’t know about vaccines

September 9, 2014January 25, 2023 Robyn Correll Carlyle

You might have noticed, but we changed our name. We could tell you that we wanted to find something that suited our voice or better

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