In April 1721, a smallpox outbreak swept through Boston. This was the latest in a string of six epidemics that had, since, 1630, laid waste to the city. Cotton Mather, a local slave owner and preacher, claimed to be in possession of a way of preventing contraction of the disease. Mather, who had first come […]
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Ebola death toll in Congo to pass 1,000, World Health Organization warns | The Guardian
Women and children fare worst as efforts to contain outbreak are undermined by health centre attacks and local mistrust.
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The First Urban Case of Ebola in the Congo Is a ‘Game Changer’ | The Atlantic
The stakes are higher now that the virus has reached a city of 1.2 million people.
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Ebola Is Back And World Health Officials Are Racing To Stop Another Catastrophe | Huffington Post
The World Health Organization is proposing to deploy the experimental Ebola vaccine against the new outbreak.
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Once Time’s ‘Person of the Year,’ an Ebola fighter dies in childbirth due to stigma of virus – The Washington Post
As the chaos and tragedy of the Ebola outbreak engulfed parts of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea in 2014, a more insidious ill took root: distrust of all who had come into contact with the disease.
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