Winning a Dartmouth Medal: The Recognition of a Lifetime

| By Rebecca Parks | Winner, winner, chicken dinner! While I can’t tell you the origin of that phrase (something about casinos giving away chicken dinners in the 1970s?), I can tell you how I feel when I yell it at the moment of victory: utter exhilaration! And that was how I felt when I …Read more

Facts not Fear: Demystify Ebola and Enterovirus D68

Ebola Informational Resources

打开新闻,尽量不要觉得有点担心目前的公共健康危机。关于埃博拉病毒和肠道病毒D68(EV-D68),故事的冲击“已感染流感样疾病664人,其中大多数是儿童,在45个州至今和哥伦比亚特区。”[1]这些和其他疾病可以压倒...和事业的社会各界的高度关注。由于谣言和误传产生恐惧,人们需要专家的信息,以便更好地了解风险,以自己和家人。

“One of the challenges of combating an Ebola outbreak is the fact that the early symptoms of the infection are similar to those of the flu, malaria, typhoid fever, and several bacterial infections, which occur more often and are not as serious. By the time the true nature of the infection becomes known, many people in a community could have been infected.

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