Category
ebola
Sierra Leone releases last known Ebola patient from hospital
Jewish Journal
August 25, 2015
Sierra Leone released its last confirmed Ebola patient from hospital on Monday and began a 42-day countdown to being declared free of the virus, medical sources said.
AJWS expands focus on Ebola prevention, education
Jewish Journal
November 24, 2014
When the magnitude of the Ebola crisis became clear in August, Ruth Messinger, president of American Jewish World Service (AJWS) and her team contacted the 10 Liberian organizations AJWS supports to ask whether the agencies would like to change course from other social service activities to focus on the evolving emergency.
12 tips on how to donate; 12 tips on how to fundraise
Jewish Journal
November 21, 2014
I run a nonprofit called Big Sunday. The idea behind Big Sunday is that absolutely everyone has some way to help somebody else.
For Jews fighting Ebola, specialty is psychosocial therapy
Jewish Journal
November 10, 2014
Even amid the unceasing horrors of Sierra Leone’s Ebola epidemic, it was a case that stood out.\n
Ebola cases in the United States
Jewish Journal
October 28, 2014
Nine cases of Ebola have been seen in the United States since the beginning of August. A Liberian man who died Oct. 8 in a Dallas, Texas, hospital was the first person diagnosed with the virus on U.S. soil.
All smiles, nurse infected by first U.S. Ebola patient is released
Jewish Journal
October 28, 2014
The second of two American nurses who became infected with Ebola while treating a Liberian man who died of the disease in Texas was released from an Atlanta hospital on Tuesday having been declared free of the virus.
CDC says returning Ebola medical workers should not be quarantined
Jewish Journal
October 27, 2014
Federal health officials on Monday revamped guidelines for doctors and nurses returning home to the United States from treating Ebola patients in West Africa, stopping well short of controversial mandatory quarantines being imposed by some U.S. states.
Fear and indifference leave West Africa desperate for Ebola staff
Jewish Journal
October 24, 2014
When Australia offered more than $2 million last month to the medical charity leading the fight against Ebola in West Africa, Medecins Sans Frontieres bluntly rejected it.
Ebola fears should not blind us to compassion … or common sense
Jewish Journal
October 23, 2014
Along with Ebola in Africa, there’s been an outbreak of hysteria in Washington.
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