Tag: infection

The Ebola virus is out of control in West Africa; how you and I are not immune…

July 10, 2014.Reading time 3 minutes.

As I’ve been scanning news articles like this one from Time calling the spread of the deadly Ebola virus in West Africa the “Worst Ebola Outbreak in History,” I was struck with a sobering realization. It was almost like déjà vu… “The Ebola virus causes a nasty infection that triggers an inflammatory reaction so intense, […]

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Child Mortality — I can’t unsee this

July 16, 2013.Reading time 2 minutes.
Child Mortality

Remember the benches touting the axiom, “See! You just proved bench advertising works”? Whenever I read one of those pesky bench ads, it irritated me that I couldn’t unread those words and that I had been tricked into falling prey to the advertiser’s “clever” marketing scheme. Just the other day I had a similar experience […]

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