by INT Admin | Jul 31, 2020 | Uncategorized
In the pantheon of infectious disease killers, Ebola virus stands out as one of the deadliest. The Zaire species of Ebola kills somewhere between 40% to 90% of its victims, and usually upwards of 60% of infected people die. Only a handful of infectious diseases can...
by INT Admin | Jul 3, 2020 | Uncategorized
After months of maintaining a plateau, new Covid-19 cases in the United States are skyrocketing in certain states: Texas, California, Arizona, and Florida, to name a few. Put simply, we are losing the war with the SARS-CoV-2 virus. What is going on? During an...
by INT Admin | Jun 19, 2020 | Uncategorized
Mother nature is a very efficient “bioterrorist.” We have seen this time and time again as new diseases have emerged, like Ebola, SARS, and henipaviruses. During the current pandemic, it’s been alleged that people created a new pathogen in the Wuhan lab – and...
by INT Admin | Jun 4, 2020 | Uncategorized
As Covid-19 continues to spread across the United States, it has become evident that the country was woefully unprepared to staff, mobilize and protect our nation’s nurses in order to meet the surge of patients presenting with a severe and contagious respiratory...
by INT Admin | Jun 3, 2020 | Uncategorized
Whenever I lecture on the Covid-19 outbreak, someone always asks me, “Can I get infected twice?” This is a natural concern. After all, if someone suffers through the prolonged fever, hacking cough, and profound weakness and misery caused by the virus, one small...