By Brett Daniel Shehadey
Special Contributor for In Homeland Security
In early August an expert panel from the World Health Organization said, “in the particular circumstances of this outbreak [in West Africa], and provided certain conditions are met, it is ethical to offer such unproven interventions as potential treatments or for prevention of infection.”
By Glynn Cosker
Editor, In Homeland Security
In recent weeks, health authorities have vigorously informed the U.S. public that the only way to acquire the Ebola virus is by contact with an infected person’s bodily fluids.
By Anthony S. Mangeri
Faculty, American Military University
On October 8, Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person ever diagnosed with Ebola in the United States, died at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas.
By Samer Koutoubi, MD, PhD
Faculty Member, Public Health at American Public University
Ebola is dominating the news and, for some of us, is an issue in our own communities. Now is not the time to panic, it is the right time to act responsibly.
By Glynn Cosker
Editor, In Homeland Security
Macedonia health officials are checking a deceased British man for the Ebola virus.
By Brian Tincher
Special Contributor for In Homeland Security
The outbreak of the Ebola virus in West Africa raises questions about the level of commitment by the United States Government to protect its citizens from an unseen enemy.
By Brett Daniel Shehadey
Special Contributor for In Homeland Security
While there are no other known positive cases of people contracting Ebola, outside of Liberian National Thomas Eric Duncan, who is now in isolation in Dallas, it is a fact that Ebola is already here in the U.S.
By Samer Koutoubi, MD, PhD
Faculty Member, Public Health at American Public University
As the first case of Ebola surfaced in Texas in a patient who arrived from Liberia, we all have to ask ourselves, “Are we ready for the Ebola virus?”
By Glynn Cosker
Editor, In Homeland Security
A man showing signs of the Ebola virus is under care and in an isolation ward at Queen’s Medical Center in Hawaii.