2014 Global Health News Stories
- C.D.C. Head Says Fight on Ebola Will Be Longexternal icon New York Times
December 22, 2014 - US official: Chinese experiences would help West Africa fight Ebolaexternal icon KION
September 29, 2014 - CDC calls year ‘mission: critical’external icon Sino-US.com
December 15, 2014 - U.S. CDC Laboratory Expert Honored by Vietnam Ministry of Healthsexternal icon US Embassy
December 12, 2014 - Bed Bugs, Kissing Bugs Linked to Deadly Chagas Disease in U.S.external icon Scientific American
December 10, 2014 - Africa Nears Polio Eradication, CDC Saysexternal icon Time magazine
November 20, 2014 - Measles Still Kills 400 Kids A Day – And It May Be Making A Comebackexternal icon NPR
November 18, 2014 - Wild polio strain 3 may have been wiped out: US CDCexternal icon Times of India
November 15, 2014 - CDC Director for Zimbabwe Says Country Ready for Ebolaexternal icon Voice of America
October 27, 2014 - CDC Moves Fast on NY Ebola Case as Soul-Searching Beginsexternal icon BLOOMBERG
October 27, 2014 - Ebola response teams ready to rush into action, CDC saysexternal icon SFGATE
October 23, 2014 - How to Avert an Ebola Nightmare: Lessons From Nigeria’s Victoryexternal icon Bloomberg Businessweek
October 20, 2014 - CDC releases revised Ebola gear guidelinesexternal icon ABC News
October 20, 2014 - CDC takes to Twitter to answer Ebola concernsexternal icon CBS News
October 8, 2014 - Meet the disease detectives tracking Ebola at the CDCexternal icon PBS NewsHour
October 8, 2014 - Ebola outbreaks in Nigeria, Senegal appear contained, CDC reportsexternal icon Fox News
October 1, 2014 - As Ebola confirmed in U.S., CDC vows: ‘We’re stopping it in its tracks’external icon Washington Post
September 30, 2014 - The Good News About Ebola in Americaexternal icon Time
September 30, 2014 - Obama Urges Global Effort to Help Prevent Epidemicsexternal icon New York Times
September 26, 2014 - Global leaders ‘answer call’ against deadly outbreaks such as Ebolaexternal icon Washington Post
September 26, 2014 - How the CDC uses social media to inform Americans about Ebola outbreakexternal icon Humanosphere
September 24, 2014 - Ebola outbreak shocked unprepared developed countries, says CDC health agencyexternal icon The Guardian
September 23, 2014 - WHO, CDC publish grim new Ebola projectionsexternal icon Science
September 23, 2014 - Powering The Ebola Response: Monrovia’s Island Clinicexternal icon USAID
September 23, 2014 - How Nigeria has succeeded in containing Ebola PBS NewsHour
September 22, 2014 - Antibiotics, Resistance, and Learning From Ebolaexternal icon Medscape
September 18, 2014 - CDC combats Ebola from its Emergency Operations Centerexternal icon CBS
September 18, 2014 - CDC officer Bex Levine on Ebola fightexternal icon CNN
September 16, 2014 - Nigeria’s weak health sector confronts Ebolaexternal icon Aljazeera
September 15, 2014 - Microsoft Co-Founder Allen To Donate $9M To CDC For Ebola Responseexternal icon Kaiser Family Foundation
September 12, 2014 - Ebola threatens global securityexternal icon USA Today
September 4, 2014 - CDC director raises Ebola alarmexternal icon Q13 Fox
September 2, 2014 - Liberia: U.S. Medical Experts, Emergency Responders Arriveexternal icon AllAfrica
August 27, 2014 - Ebola outbreak ‘worse than we’d feared,’ CDC chief says on visit to West Africaexternal icon Atlanta Journal-Constitution
August 26, 2014 - CDC Foundation gets $1M grant to fight Ebolaexternal icon Atlanta Business Chronicle
August 25, 2014 - Ebola Outbreak: Looking for Hope in a Hot Zoneexternal icon ABC News
August 25, 2014 - CDC director on Ebola crisis: Why I am going to Africaexternal icon Fox News
August 22, 2014 - As Ebola Crisis Spreads in West Africa, Liberia’s Deterioration Stands Outexternal icon National Geographic
August 20, 2014 - What Comes After Ebolaexternal icon Time
August 14, 2014 - CDC commits more than 400 staffers to fight Ebolaexternal icon Health24.com
August 14, 2014 - Inside the Ebola outbreak with the CDCexternal icon BBC News Africa
August 13, 2014 - Lessons From the Low-Tech Defeat of the Guinea Wormexternal icon New York Times
August 11, 2014 - Video: Ebola outbreak: Ugandan experts to help West Africaexternal icon BBC News Africa
August 11, 2014 - Chief Tom Frieden Confronts Ebola Crisis Cool and Collectedexternal icon NBC News
August 11, 2014 - Nigeria Struggles to Cope With Ebola Outbreakexternal icon New York Times
August 10, 2014 - The truth about Ebola, US risks and how to stop itexternal icon Fox News
August 9, 2014 - Inside the CDC’s Emergency Operations Center Tackling Ebolaexternal icon Time
August 9, 2014 - CDC issues emergency ‘all-hands’ call for Ebola responseexternal icon Yahoo! News
August 6, 2014 - Video: Inside CDC’s War Room: U.S. Hospitals on High Alert Over Ebolaexternal icon
August 4, 2014 - Video: Transfer of Ebola Patients From Africa to U.S.external icon ABC World News
July 31, 2014 - Ebola crisis prompts CDC to warn against nonessential travel to West Africaexternal icon Washington Post
July 31, 2014 - Anti-malaria drug resistance: a threat to global health securityexternal icon Global Health Technologies Coalition
July 31, 2014 - Stopping Deadly Ebola Outbreak Will Be a ‘Marathon,’ CDC Saysexternal icon Yahoo! News
July 29, 2014 - Fighting a Global Killer: Malaria Vaccine RTS,S Protects Babiesexternal icon NBC News
July 29, 2014 - Ebola Not A Significant Threat To U.S., CDC Saysexternal icon Huffington Post
July 28, 2014 - Northern Virginia: ‘Ground Zero’ for Kissing Bug Diseaseexternal icon The Atlantic
July 24, 2014 - Antibiotic resistance the next pandemic according to CDCexternal icon Examiner.com
July 24, 2014 - The worm turns no more…external icon PLOS
July 8, 2014 - CDC official visiting PATH sees innovation in immunizationexternal icon PATH
July 3, 2014 - Crisis talks held as Ebola outbreak continues to spread in Africaexternal icon UPI
July 2, 2014 - CDC App Helps Travelers Avoid Diarrheaexternal icon CBS Atlanta
June 10, 2014 - A Strategic Approach to Global Tuberculosisexternal icon Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
June 9, 2014 - South Africa ‘has already entered the post-antibiotic era’external icon Business Day (South Africa)
June 5, 2014 - Hypertension: an urgent need for global control and preventionexternal icon The Lancet
May 31, 2014 - Worried about MERS? Worry about polio insteadexternal icon Los Angeles Times
May 21, 2014 - Progress continues in fight against AIDSexternal icon Houston Chronicle
May 12, 2014 - Video: Second case of MERS in U.S.external icon ABC World News
May 12, 2014 - Second case of MERS in U.S. is health-care worker in Saudi Arabia, visiting family hereexternal icon Washington Post
May 12, 2014 - CDC Targets 5 Parasitic Infectionsexternal icon HealthDay
May 8, 2014 - Why polio is backexternal icon VOX
May 7, 2014 - A New Global Health Warning on Polioexternal icon WAMU
May 7, 2014 - Neglected Parasitic Infections in the U.S.: Needs and Opportunitiesexternal icon American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
May 7, 2014 - Polio’s Return After Near Eradication Prompts a Global Health Warningexternal icon New York Times
May 5, 2014 - WHO: Spread of polio now a world health emergencyexternal icon Washington Post
May 5, 2014 - In praise of CDC’s heroic ‘disease detectives’external icon Fox News
April 30, 2014 - Drug-Resistant Bugs a Global Threat, WHO Saysexternal icon NBC News
April 30, 2014 - Mysterious Kidney Disease Slays Farmworkers In Central Americaexternal icon NPR
April 30, 2014 - CDC uses software to find people exposed to Ebola feverexternal icon UPI
April 29, 2014 - EGPAF launches new training program to address health care worker shortages in Malawiexternal icon News-Medical.Net
April 29, 2014 - CDC Reports Measles Outbreaks in New Yorkexternal icon CBS 6, Albany, New York
April 28, 2014 - Tsetse fly’s genetic code sequencedexternal icon The Columbus Dispatch
April 25, 2014 - Haiti searches for clean water solutionsexternal icon CNN
April 23, 2014 - A Remarkable Achievement: 80 Percent of the World Now Polio-Freeexternal icon Huffington Post
April 21, 2014 - CDC Foundation and George W. Bush Institute to Partner in $3.6 Million Grant to Address Global Cervical Cancerexternal icon EIN News
April 16, 2014 - Here’s How Refrigerator Magnets And A Laser Pointer Could Save Millions From Malariaexternal icon International Business Times
April 16, 2014 - 60th anniversary of polio vaccine, first administered in Pennsylvaniaexternal icon WHYY
April 15, 2014 - How A Person Can Recover From Ebolaexternal icon NPR
April 11, 2014 - Vietnam hospital lab awarded international accreditationexternal icon Tuoi Tre News
April 9, 2014 - On World Health Day, Take Heart in Knowing the Global Fight Is Going Strongexternal icon Huffington Post
April 7, 2014 - US health secretary: Nations cannot ignore diseaseexternal icon AP
April 7, 2014 - U.S. CDC Improves Design and Quality of Medical Laboratories in Vietnamexternal icon U.S. Embassy in Hanoi, Vietnam
April 2, 2014 - Global Health Security—A Priority for Allexternal icon Global Health Technologies Coalition
April 1, 2014 - U.S. Sends Team to Fight African Ebola Outbreakexternal icon NBC News
April 1, 2014 - After Ending Polio, India Turns To Stop Another Childhood Killerexternal icon NPR
March 30, 2014 - Combination of oral, injectable polio vaccine used for first time in outbreakexternal icon Vancouver Sun
March 20, 2014 - Addressing Violence Against Women and Children Is Critical to Achieving an AIDS-Free Generation and the Millennium Development Goalsexternal icon Huffington Post
March 19, 2014 - Malaria Cases Could Rise with Temperatures, Study Saysexternal icon Newsweek
March 6, 2014 - Polio: The eradication endgameexternal icon Nature
March 5, 2014 - Coping With Infectious Diseaseexternal icon New York Times
February 21, 2014 - Why Global Health Security Is Imperativeexternal icon The Atlantic
February 13, 2014 - Threat of global disease outbreaks spawns 27-nation pactexternal icon Reuters
February 13, 2014 - Obama Team Launches Global Partnership Aimed at Battling Pandemicsexternal icon National Journal
February 13, 2014 - U.S. Opens Global Health Security Summitexternal icon MedPage Today
February 13, 2014 - Struggling Nations Would Get Help Under New Global Health Effortexternal icon Science
February 13, 2014 - US-led Global Health Security agenda takes offexternal icon Devex
February 13, 2014 - Is Global Health Security Possible When A New Disease Can Spread Anywhere Within 24 Hours? Global Health Security Agenda Launches Todayexternal icon Medical Daily
February 13, 2014 - Global partnership targets spread of infectious diseasesexternal icon Healio
February 13, 2014 - U.S. targets $85 million to help 10 nations fight disease outbreaksexternal icon Los Angeles Times
February 13, 2014 - Nations Commit to Accelerating Progress Against Infectious Disease Threatsexternal icon Infection Control Today
February 13, 2014 - CDC: 5 ways diseases in other countries can kill youexternal icon CNN
February 13, 2014 - CDC calls on hospitals, doctors to fight antibiotic resistanceexternal icon Fox 25 (Oklahoma City)
February 10, 2014 - West Nile Virus Has Cost U.S. Nearly $800 Million: CDCexternal icon U.S. News and World Report
February 10, 2014 - The Good News, Bad News Story On Measlesexternal icon WBUR (Boston NPR)
February 7, 2014 - Mosquitoes Carry Yet Another Tropical Disease toward the U.S.external icon Scientific American
February 6, 2014 - Stopping Disease Threats Before They Can Cross Bordersexternal icon Huffington Post
January 31, 2014 - How to prevent the next pandemicexternal icon CNN
January 31, 2014 - Demonstration Projects Show Global Health Security Begins at the Local Levelexternal icon JAMA
January 30, 2014 - Bird Flu Isn’t Just China’s Problem Anymoreexternal icon Time
January 29, 2014 - CDC Director: China Bird Flu Outbreak Closely Watchedexternal icon WBUR (Boston NPR)
January 28, 2014 - Guinea Worm Eradication at Risk in South Sudanese Warexternal icon Science
January 17, 2014 - Jimmy Carter Announces Guinea Worm Cases Hit Record Low, Setting Stage for Eradication of Second Human Disease in Historyexternal icon Carter Center
January 16, 2014 - Another Threat to America’s Health Securityexternal icon Huffington Post
January 13, 2014 - India Reaches Polio-Free Milestoneexternal icon Voice of America
January 13, 2014 - India marks 3 years since last polio case reportedexternal icon Washington Post
January 13, 2014 - Saving Mothers, Giving Life Reports One-Third Reduction in Maternal Mortality in One Yearexternal icon CBS 8 (San Diego)
January 9, 2014