A surge of new coronavirus cases in the U.S. has the potential to surpass the growth of COVID cases seen in July during the “summer surge”. The seven-day average for new infections is now more than 58,000 per day, an […]
Yesterday, West Virginia reported its first case of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). All 50 States now have confirmed cases. The U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams recently stated, “We are at a critical inflection point in this country…”. His comment was later followed by, “When you look at the projections, there’s every chance that we could be Italy.”
The largest Ebola epidemic in history passed a grim milestone according to figures released Thursday by the World Health Organization. WHO’s most recent tally showed that the virus has claimed 10,004 lives in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone since last […]
The United Nations released its 2015 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR15) last week along with a request for more international investment toward a global disaster risk management fund. According to the yearly report’s findings, disaster losses worldwide […]
After 16 days in a Chinese Ebola Treatment Unit in Monrovia, the last remaining Liberian patient was released on March 5, 2015. Her name is Beatrice Yardolo, a 58-year-old woman who contracted the virus after three of her children had […]
The measles outbreak in the United States continues to grow. Thirteen new cases were confirmed in the last week, bringing the total number of U.S. cases to 154 across 17 states and the District of Columbia. A measles outbreak in […]
With 20 new cases confirmed in the last week, the measles outbreak continues to spread in the United States. Now, experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are saying the U.S. is experiencing two measles outbreaks plus several […]
South Carolina’s Spartanburg Regional Medical Center is battling a flu outbreak that’s clogged emergency rooms throughout the state with equipment from BLU-MED Response Systems®. “We are like all of the hospitals in (this region), full to all of our adult […]
While the fight against Ebola continues in West Africa – particularly in Guinea and Sierra Leone – Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS CoV) is affecting Saudi Arabia and surrounding countries. MERS CoV usually develops into a severe respiratory illness with […]
Management of corpses during disasters is less about danger to citizens’ physical health than one may believe. Instead, the true danger of not properly disposing dead bodies is its effect on the mental health in the community. According to US National Library […]
Due to terrorism, public health preparedness has been on the forefront of political agendas and national discussions. Pubic health preparedness includes having stockpiles of hospitals, medication and vaccines to cure people of deathly diseases such as smallpox. However, public health […]
There are approximately 300 – 400 natural disasters each year. A report by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters showed that between 2002 and 2011 there were 124.5 million victims of natural disasters worldwide. It is a […]