Post Tagged with: "Epidemics"

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  [Mood Riffs] “The Ebola Fighters”

  2014 Time Magazine Person of the Year honors “The Ebola Fighters,” the doctors and nurses on the front line against the epidemic.
   
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  [Audio] Alan Hall Discusses Social Mood and the Ebola Outbreak

  Alan Hall joined Dale Pinkert on FX Street to discuss the relationship between epidemics and social mood.
   
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  [Mood Riffs] No End in Sight for Ebola

  The director of the Centers for Disease Control describes the Ebola outbreak in West Africa as
   
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  [Mood Riffs] “Look, Mommy, I Have Spots!”

  In 2000, the US declared that it had eliminated measles
   
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  [Social Mood Watch] Are We “Hunting”… or Being Hunted?

  Society’s susceptibility to superbugs continues to rise.
   
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  [Mood Riffs] Jerky [Trick-or-] Treats

  As Halloween approaches, the FDA is asking: “Why have jerky treats
   
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  [Mood Riffs] Abner, Let’s Move Away From This Here Hog Farm

  On September 16, the CDC released a first-of-its-kind assessment of the escalating threat of
   
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  [Mood Riffs] Tooting Our Own Horn

  Alan Hall just presented SI’s epidemic paper at a third conference. Click here to watch.
   
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  [Social Mood Watch] Does the Stock Market Anticipate Risks to Public Health?

  Alan Hall recently answered this question in a 22-minute presentation to the 2013 joint conference of the Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics (SABE) and two associated international organizations.
   
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  [Mood Riffs] Saudi Officials Scramble to Prevent Major Virus Outbreak

  The Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) coronavirus has killed 38 people in