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Cheat Sheet / Updated 03-27-2016
Whenever something big hits the news, you can be sure that both facts and misinformation will be floating around. The Ebola outbreak of 2014 is no different, and it has everyone’s tongues wagging. The problem is that not all of the information that you hear is true, which just adds to the feelings of panic and concern you might already feel.
Article / Updated 03-26-2016
Ebola virus disease (or Ebola hemorrhagic fever) was first found to infect humans in 1976. Because the deadly disease was discovered relatively recently, there is no cure or vaccine for Ebola, and treatment options are limited. Ebola is considered by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to be a highly infectious disease, yet not particularly contagious.
Article / Updated 03-26-2016
Chagas is known as the kissing disease because the infection is usually transmitted from the bite of an insect called a Triatominae, also known as a kissing bug, which likes to feed on a warm blooded animal’s face while it is sleeping. (This includes more than 150 species of mammal — even humans — yikes!) Credit: ©iStockphoto.
