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Infectious disease

Q+A
Ethics and Ebola
Published Oct 23, 2014
Berman Institute experts examine complex ethical challenges raised by outbreak of virus
JHU issues guidance on travel to West Africa
Published Oct 20, 2014
Faculty, staff, students discouraged from traveling to areas most affected by Ebola outbreak
Q+A
Common Ebola questions
Published Oct 17, 2014
Learn how virus spreads; its symptoms; what Johns Hopkins Hospital is doing to ensure patients, visitors, staff are protected
Experts gather to discuss Ebola outbreak
Published Oct 14, 2014
Swiftly moving epidemic presents immense challenge to national and global health systems, infectious disease expert Michael Osterholm says
Q+A
Ebola facts
Published Aug 11, 2014
What is the Ebola virus and how is it transmitted?
Bugging out
Press the Ebola panic button?
Published July 31, 2014
JHU expert cautions against panic over latest outbreak of the deadly virus / Vice News
Delaying HIV treatment
Published Feb 11, 2014
Nearly half of HIV-infected teens put off treatment, study finds, increasing risk of long-term complications / Hopkins Medicine
Hepatitis C therapy paves way for 'unprecedented advances'
Published Jan 15, 2014
Research points to future of injection-free treatment, Hopkins doctor says / Hopkins Medicine
Chasing a cure
A discovery that mattered
Published Dec 23, 2013
Hopkins virologist on 'Nature' list of 10 people who mattered in 2013 for role in finding 'functional cure' for HIV-infected infant / Nature
Tick talk
Published Sept 2013
Environmental infectious diseases are the focus of JHU's Fisher Center / Gazette