31 Jul2014

The CDC Says You Shouldn’t Fly to Countries Hardest Hit by Ebola Outbreak

Staff of the Christian charity Samaritan’s Purse putting on protective gear in the ELWA Hospital in Monrovia, Liberia, on July 24, 2014 — Zoom Dosso—AFP/Getty Images

CDC director calls the disease a “dreadful and merciless virus”

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a travel advisory for Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia in response to an Ebola outbreak ravaging those West African countries, CDC director Dr. Tom Frieden announced in a press conference Thursday.

27 Jul2014

Before and after: Surviving a brain aneurysm

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Jeff Donato, a jazz guitarist and personal trainer, in the gym on July 3, 2014. He had none of the characteristics that might predispose him to a brain aneurysm, but he survived slim odds after a blood vessel suddenly ballooned and burst. Following a lengthy recovery, he is back to his life-long weightlifting regimen and is reteaching himself jazz guitar. (D.A. Robin/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette/MCT)

Brain aneurysms can go undetected for years. But for patients who have been blind-sided by it, there are support programmes.

Ten days after signing the lease on Resurrection Fitness, in Carnegie, Philadelphia, Jeff Donato was found lying in a pool of blood. At a local hospital, doctors ordered a CT scan and, as they were wheeling him into surgery, they told his wife that he had had a ruptured brain aneurysm. A blood vessel in the left side of his brain had ballooned out and burst. He had been lying on his bedroom floor for almost 12 hours.

The CDC Says You Shouldn’t Fly to Countries Hardest Hit by Ebola Outbreak

CDC director calls the disease a “dreadful and merciless virus”

Before and after: Surviving a brain aneurysm

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