Summary: Ebola: Questions and Answers Episode 67 by Cris Felipe-Alves (Click here to directly access the MP3) The current Ebola outbreak has claimed the lives of thousands of people in West Africa since February 2014. Just recently, the UN declared the disease as a “threat to international piece and security”. This week, Experimental hit the streets to answer some of the questions the public have about Ebola. Listen to this latest Experimental podcast to learn more about this terrible disease. Listen to the podcast to learn more. References: http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/; CDC webpage http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-29262968; Ebola ‘threat to world security’- UN Security Council http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/13/world/africa/ebola-who-africa.html?_r=0; Ebola Outpaces Global Response, W.H.O. Says Science. 2014 Sep 12;345(6202):1369-72. “Genomic surveillance elucidates Ebola virus origin and transmission during the 2014 outbreak” Journal of Virology 77 (18): 9733–9737. “Ebola Virus Pathogenesis: Implications for Vaccines and Therapies” Emerg Infect Dis. 2005 Mar;11(3):385-90. “Ebola virus antibody prevalence in dogs and human risk” Cris Felipe-Alves has worked as a researcher in both academic and private environments. He’s currently finishing a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Otago (UoO) in New Zealand before moving permanently to the West Coast of Canada. He’s also an alumni of the UoO’s Centre for Science Communication with specialization in Natural History Filmmaking and Communications. Watch some of his YouTube movies. Learn more about Cris from his LinkedIn resume.
