What words would you use to separate influenza spread from Ebola virus disease spread?

I need your help.I have spent umpteen hours on trying to make this message simple. None of that has been aided by the way that the CDC, the WHO and now the UN use the terms and words confusingly to convey messages to the public. The message is often delivered as if they were sitting around their meeting...

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Evaluating a traveller being considered for Ebola virus disease

From http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/pdf/ebola-algorithm.pdfA lot of other content from the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention can be found at: http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebo...

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The richer end of the world finds creative ways to spread Ebola virus... [UPDATED x2]

ProMED MODERATOR JW SUGGESTED SOME ASPECT OF THIS WAS A HOAX (HEADLINE). http://promedmail.org/direct.php?id=20141004.2832236Amendment: It has been quite correctly noted below, by the moderator in a personal communication (or 4) and by others, that this image was posted or taken from a Dallas/Fort Worth TV (WFAA) station's chopper on 2-Oct. The infected man...

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It's what falls out of the aerosol that matters....

v2 031014"Aerosol" is a messy word. It means different things to different people. So does "airborne".What's in an aerosol?Here we're talking about a mixture of different sized stuff. Think  of the size range in a handful the sand from a shelly beach.A cough/sneeze includes big, wet,...

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Australia's response to Ebola virus disease in West Africa: is too little enough?

Written by Dr. Katherine E. Arden and Dr. Ian M. MackayThe outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) began in December 2013 in Guinea. It spread to Sierra Leone, Liberia, Nigeria and Senegal. The last two countries on that list were able to contain EVD because they had functioning healthcare systems with doctors and nurses, protective equipment and hospitals that work. The United States of America (US)...

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The United States of America is the 6th country to host a 2014 West African Ebola virus variant..

v4 08102014 07:00am AESTFirst thing...CALM DOWN!This (announced 30-Sept) is the first case of Ebola virus infection to arrive in the United States that was not deliberately flown in. Its not the first viral haemorrhagic fever case though (1 case of Marburg virus disease and at least 4 Lassa virus infections...

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The numbers are underestimates...

Ebola virus numbers.Sorry but D'uh - yes the numbers during the Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak happening since December in Guinea then progressing to Sierra Leone, Liberia, Nigeria and Senegal....are an underestimate. Of course they are! How could they possibly not be?Have you not watched...

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The control gap...

v2 300914I have a theory.This theory is meant only to apply to disease outbreak/epidemic/pandemic situations, and then only to those which include fatal cases.This theory of mine has only emerged since I've been plotting Ebola virus cases numbers from the West African epidemic. I precede the explanation...

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