Want Accurate Information on Ebola? You Won't Find It in the Media. Go Here:

[MineralMan]

http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/index.html

From this index page, you can find all of the information you could possible need on Ebola, including bulletins for health care providers and hospitals to details about the disease. Most advisory information has been updated since the current outbreak in West Africa. The more you read from this site, the more you'll understand this disease and the better able you'll be to interpret what you're hearing in the news media, which gets as much wrong as right in its reporting.

Get the facts, and you'll be accurately informed. Rely on non-medical sources, like news media, and the more likely it will be that you will be misinformed or only partially informed.

This information brought to you by folks who have the facts and want you to have them, too.

[MineralMan]

1. The CDC is an outstanding source for information on all

communicable diseases. It should be stop 1 whenever you have a question.

[longship]

5. And they have been studying Ebola since the first outbreak.

They are the experts, in both these type of diseases, and in epidemiology in general. Plus, they know isolation protocols better than anybody. That, thanks to the fact that they seem to be thankfully well funded. Rare recently for science these days.

Thank goodness for CDC, who have been studying Ebola for decades, and know about as much as anybody. Probably more.

Glad to R&K, MM.

[MineralMan]

6. Thanks. I realized that I assumed that everyone knew

to visit the CDC site. I finally realized that I should post a link.

[SidDithers]

2. Here's a hand information flow-chart, for dealing with hair-on-fire ebola news...

Sid

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. Thank you for this link, my dear MineralMan.

It's really good.

Good information is essential for our well-being and our sanity.

[MineralMan]

7. It is my pleasure. I realize that I should have posted this link

earlier, but better late than never.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

4. How To Avoid Being Infected with Ebola

Do NOT fuck Dr. Kent Brantly.

If you can manage that (and I think I can thank you on behalf of Dr. Brantly), then you're in the clear.