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Johns Hopkins Hosts Ebola Protection Equipment Design Contest
Think of it like Project Runway, but instead of trying to please Nina Garcia, the contestants are trying to save lives. As you’ve probably heard, the current thought is that the two Dallas nurses who...
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Two Baltimore Hospitals Will Deal with Potential Ebola Patients
First things first: You don’t have Ebola, and you (probably) won’t get it. As Twitter has pointed out, more Americans have been married to Kim Kardashian than have contracted Ebola in the U.S. That...
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Nina Pham Cured of Ebola at Md. Hospital
Nina Pham (via NBC News) Nina Pham, the first nurse who contracted Ebola while caring for a patient in Dallas, was released from a NIH hospital in Maryland on Friday, and declared Ebola-free. Pham,...
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Johns Hopkins Works to Find Potential Ebola Protection Solutions
Last week, we told you about a Johns Hopkins contest to design better personal protective gear for doctors and nurses to use when treating Ebola patients. This wasn’t one of those hypothetical design...
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Johns Hopkins Prof Explains What Makes Ebola So Dangerous
Although there’s some evidence that the spread of Ebola virus in West Africa is starting to slow down, the current outbreak is likely to result in tens of thousands of deaths. There are a number of...
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Maryland Doctor Who Contracted Ebola in Africa Dies
Dr. Martin Salia The Maryland surgeon who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone last week has died, doctors from the Nebraska Medical Center announced Monday. Dr. Martin Salia, 44, died early Monday...
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Johns Hopkins Contributed to Experimental Ebola Drug
Back in August, the Ebola epidemic was spreading out of control, a few infected health care workers were given an experimental treatment that many hoped would prove to be the cure for the deadly...
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Ebola Is Back in Maryland
Though Ebola has fallen out of the headlines, it’s still a huge problem in West Africa. And now the specialized Ebola treatment facilities in the U.S.–including Maryland’s NIH facilities– have a new...
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Masks For Good Helps Liberian Children Talk About Ebola
photo courtesy Masks For Good Masks may hide an actor’s face, but Tara Cariaso believes they can draw out true emotions. “People put on a mask, and they’re so much freer than when they’re not with a...
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Baltimore Street Artist Brightens Walls in Liberia
Photo by M. Holden Warren, via NPR The Nathaniel Varney Massaquoi Elementary and Junior High School in Liberia has been closed since last August, when the country was crippled by the rapid spread of...
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Hopkins Patient With Fever Does Not Have Ebola
A patient who recently returned from West Africa reporting a fever was admitted to Johns Hopkins Hospital over the weekend, spurring doctors to test for Ebola. According to the Washington Post, the...
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Johns Hopkins’s Ebola Suit Gets Tested in Liberia
An example of a current Ebola suit, via BBC In 2014, Johns Hopkins brought together 60 experts of various fields (including a wedding dress designer) to design a better protective suit for doctors and...
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Johns Hopkins Gets Involved with the Fight Against Ebola
Photo via Jhpiego The Ebola outbreak is bad and getting worse. The president is sending in ground troops to build hospitals and train West African health care workers, and the WHO estimates that may...
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Johns Hopkins Hosts Major Ebola Symposium Tomorrow
Photo via JHU Hub This weekend, health officials announced that a nurse who had been treating the Dallas Ebola patient had tested positive for the disease; meanwhile, nearly 4,000 people in West...
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Ebola Scare at Port of Baltimore, Nurse Who Has Disease Transferred to Md....
Nina Pham (photo via ABC News) A nurse who contracted Ebola while treating a patient in Texas, will be moved to a Maryland hospital. Nina Pham is being transferred to a section of the National...
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