The bad the worse and the over-interpreted...

EVD case numbers between WHO reports. The World Health Organization (WHO) Ebola virus disease (EVD)case numbers that came out on 29-Oct were pretty big (see graph on the left). As if there weren't already enough new cases and deaths every 2-5 days, now there is this bolus of 3,562 cases added to...

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Point-of-Care Ultrasound Training for Emergency Medicine Residents in Kigali Rwanda

October 30, 2014I am so grateful to have had the opportunity to join the PURE Team here in Rwanda and thank the Center of Expertise in Global and Humanitarian Health for making it happen.  PURE stands for Point-of -Care Ultrasound in Resource limited Environments and was created by a rock star...

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Why Ebola virus is not human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)

I'm not an HIV expert and only an Ebola virus hobbyist but let's see if we can list some things that are similar and different about these two viruses.Some ways that Ebola virus and HIV are similar...Both are harder to catch than a cold. They do not spread through an airborne route.Both have lipid envelopes - Ebola virus is about 904-1,100nm long x 80nm wide whereas HIV is about 120nm aroundBoth can...

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