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Blair Peterson

U.S. Considers Supplying Arms to Ukraine Forces, Officials Say - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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International Relations Russia Ukraine

shared by Blair Peterson on 02 Feb 15 - No Cached
  • With Russian-backed separatists pressing their attacks in Ukraine, NATO’s military commander, Gen. Philip M. Breedlove, now supports providing defensive weapons and equipment to Kiev’s beleaguered forces, and an array of administration and military officials appear to be edging toward that position, American officials said Sunday.
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Security Threat Analysis: ISIS - 0 views

http://ironline.american.edu/security-threat-analysis-isis/

International Relations

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Blair Peterson

BBC News - Ebola crisis: Five ways to break the epidemic - 0 views

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International Relations Ebola

shared by Blair Peterson on 24 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • The aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has urged other countries to "deploy their civil defence and military assets, and medical teams, to contain the epidemic".
  • "As soon as their family member shows more severe symptoms, like bleeding, they will seek to bring them in a treatment centre anyway," says Brice de la Vigne, MSF's director of operations.
  • Senegal, where many UN agencies and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have their regional offices, is expected to become a logistical hub.
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  • "If the CDC (Centre for Disease Control and Prevention) hadn't sent 50 experts to Nigeria, they would not have it under control," Dr Maughan says.
  • "We are working with the authorities in Mali to get all the 86 health centres and hospitals we sponsor there ready," says Alexis Smigielski, head of the Dakar-based medical charity Alima.
  • The WHO has also indicated that people who have survived can now provide blood to treat patients who are sick.
Blair Peterson

Dear America: Don't Panic About Ebola. Seriously. | TakePart - 0 views

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International Relations Ebola Public Health

shared by Blair Peterson on 11 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • Our strategy for eradicating smallpox in the first instance was mass vaccination—vaccinate everybody in the room. Well, that didn’t work.
  • We’re able to isolate in an almost perfect way once he enters into isolation, so we reduce the density of susceptibles down to zero. Either there’s nobody in the room with him, or people in the room are wearing space suits. If there are no suspeptibles around you, it doesn’t matter how bad the disease is once you’re in a room and there’s no one you can catch the disease from.
  • Why do we see it in Liberia and Guinea? Because these are the poorest countries in the world, and they are all post-conflict. Their public health systems and economies are in shambles, and in America, we don’t understand because for us, if you go to Canton, Ohio, California or New York, they’re all part of the United States.
Blair Peterson

Larry Brilliant is humanity's best hope against the next pandemic (Wired UK) - 1 views

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International Relations Ebola Public Health pandemic

shared by Blair Peterson on 11 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • The key goals of the pandemics team at the SGTF are detecting an outbreak faster, verifying that it's a real sign and getting a connected network of people to talk about what's going on.
Blair Peterson

Better Staffing Seen as Crucial to Ebola Treatment in Africa - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...ebola-treatment-in-africa.html

Global Health Diplomacy International Relations Ebola

shared by Blair Peterson on 05 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • Most of the patients in the United States also received experimental drugs or plasma transfusions, but doctors say rehydration played a major role in saving them.
  • Ebola wards need an unusually high level of staffing, Dr. Sprecher said. Not only does each patient require a lot of care, but the protective gear causes health workers to overheat so quickly and severely, especially in wards that lack air-conditioning in bare-bones facilities, that they cannot work for more than an hour without coming out to cool down. Extra workers are needed so that they can spell each other.
Blair Peterson

Fault Lines in Global Health | Center for Strategic and International Studies - 1 views

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Global Health Diplomacy International Relations

shared by Blair Peterson on 05 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • Global health has come to be seen as a ‘best buy’ for achieving concrete health improvements in people’s lives and leveraging the United States’ ‘Smart Power.’
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