"An Ohio man has become infected with misinformation about the Ebola virus through casual contact with cable news, the CDC has confirmed... Once [his] condition was apparent, [he] was rushed to a public library and given a seventh-grade biology textbook, at which point he “started to stabilize,” the spokesman said."-- satirist Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker.
Credo Reference
Start your search for reliable info about Ebola virus in Drew’s Credo Reference Collection, where a search turns up a Topic page & reference sources.
http://tinyurl.com/du-credo-ebola
MedlinePlus
The National Library of Medicine’s resource for the general public on Ebola, with links to a Medical Encyclopedia, overviews, clinical trials and more.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ebola.html
Centers for Disease Control: Ebola (Ebola Virus Disease)
Updated information about U.S. government response to the threat of the virus to U.S. citizens, symptoms, risks, diagnosis, outbreaks & health care worker info.
http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/
WHO Global Alert and Response (GAR) Situation reports
“…Ebola response roadmap that contains review of the epidemiological situation and response monitoring.”
http://www.who.int/csr/disease/ebola/situation-reports/en/
Disaster Information Management Resource Center
This “Ebola Outbreak 2014: Information Resources” page gives links to resources on Ebola from a wide variety of government, NGO and other sources:
http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/dimrc/ebola_2014.html
Atlas of Human Infectious Diseases
See Ebola and Marburg Virus Disease (p. 208-9), in this ebook for “information on the pathogen, disease transmission, incubation time, clinical finding, prevention, treatment, epidemiology, main resources, and references.”
http://tinyurl.com/du-atlasinfdisease
Encyclopedia of Plague and Pestilence
Need to regain your sense of proportion? A quick scan shows many more fearsome diseases of the past survived by our ancestors.
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NJ Dept. of Health
Communicable Disease Services http://www.nj.gov/health/cd/topics/vhf.shtml