Pyongyang’s travel ban on Malaysians leaving North Korea sharply escalated the already-high tensions with Kuala Lumpur — but is only the latest episode of the isolated country’s diplomatic brinkmanship. The authoritarian, nuclear-armed state has a long history of using foreigners — especially American tourists or missionaries — as bargaining chips in its nuclear and aid … Read more
The majority of cases in the world’s largest outbreak of Ebola were caused by a tiny handful of patients, research suggests. The analysis, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows nearly two thirds of cases (61%) were caused by 3% of infected people. The young and old were more likely to have … Read more
The majority of cases in the world’s largest outbreak of Ebola were caused by a tiny handful of patients, research suggests. The analysis, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows nearly two thirds of cases (61%) were caused by 3% of infected people. The young and old were more likely to have … Read more
Disease ‘superspreaders’ fueled the spread of the devastating Ebola epidemic in 2014, a new study claims. The West African Ebola epidemic was the largest in history and killed more than 11,300 people, with many of the cases involving people infected while caring for a sick person or burying a body. Researchers found there was just … Read more
Most of the people infected with Ebola in the West Africa epidemic that began in 2014 got sick through contact with a small number of “superspreaders” with the disease, researchers said Monday. The study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows such “superspreaders” can be extremely dangerous when it comes to infectious … Read more