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The Nigerian Center for Disease Control has learned significant lessons about large-scale infectious disease outbreaks from the past Ebola outbreaks in West Africa. The systems set up for the Ebola response efforts that are already in place are being utilized for Nigeria’s preparation for…

Vaping is a public health issue of rising concern, especially to middle and high school students. Their use rates have increased from 1.5% in 2011 to 27.5% in 2019. At the conclusion of 2019, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) identified over 2,500 cases of severe lung injures associated with the…

The efforts to stop the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have faced significant setbacks due to ongoing violence in the affected areas, but recently the number of new cases seems to be diminishing. This outbreak is still declared by the World Health Organization…

Structural engineers are a type of civil engineers that are specialized in understanding the stability of any structures, like the framework of buildings and bridges. Structural engineers have a particular role in the context of emergency preparedness and disaster response - at the scene of a…

The intensity of media coverage in English during the first month of the current Coronavirus outbreak (Jan. 2020) was so much more than during the first month of the current Ebola outbreak (Aug. 2018). There are many theories for why this is the case including: the novelty of Coronavirus, the…

Gun violence research has been essentially halted since 1996 due to the Dickey Amendment. In December 2019, $25 million of federal funds were approved by Congress that will be used by the Center for Disease Control and National Institute of Health for gun violence safety research. There are…

A surprising result from a new qualitative study on climate change shows that the way climate change is affecting daily life is leading to increased risks of violence against women. In Uganda, for example, a few of the major effects are longer droughts and more challenges faced when growing crops.…

In Beni, North-Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, there have been 72 civilians who have been killed recently due to rebel fighter attacks. This is the same city that is at the center of the Ebola outbreak that has been going on since May 2018 and this unrest has significantly hindered…

Child mortality rates, generally, are the highest in low and middle income countries, which also tend to be the countries with the highest rates of intimate partner violence. A new analysis about the association between the two recommends that understanding intimate partner violence within such…

The age when people legally are allowed to file for a protective order against intimate partners, generally called civil protective order (CPOs), varies by the states within the U.S. This is especially pertinent to teens and minors. For example, 48 states allow for minors to file for CPOs, but only…

The second-worst Ebola outbreak in human history started in the summer of 2018 and is still going on in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Health workers have faced significant difficulties that have made outbreak response particularly difficult in this outbreak: the inability to…

American history textbooks across the country, even with the same authors and same publishers, have different written versions of history that are sometimes extremely reflective of the country’s ideological and political divides. The book publishers have different editions of the same textbook for…

The current Ebola outbreak happening in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has been specifically exacerbated by the civil unrest surrounding the outbreak areas interfering with the outbreak efforts. For example, there is a current vaccine for Ebola that is being used to slow the spread of…

A new study done by the group Everytown for Gun Safety shows that of the children who die from mass shootings, about three quarters of the children died in events that were linked to domestic violence. It is common in coverage about gun violence to not also include the incidences where the victims…