{"id":51261,"date":"2018-05-29T09:52:39","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T13:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=51261"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:56:03","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:56:03","slug":"armstrong-stopping-ebola-before-the-virus-goes-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2018\/05\/armstrong-stopping-ebola-before-the-virus-goes-viral\/","title":{"rendered":"ARMSTRONG: Stopping Ebola before the virus goes viral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Armstrong, Associate Professor of Operations Research in\u00a0Brock\u2019s Goodman School of Business, wrote a <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/stopping-ebola-before-the-virus-goes-viral-97234\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">piece recently published in The Conversation<\/a> about Ebola and its potential to rapidly spread.<\/p>\n<p>Armstrong writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>The\u00a0Ebola outbreak\u00a0in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) remains relatively small. The World Health Organization (WHO)\u00a0reports 56 people with confirmed, probable or suspected infections, including 25 deaths.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But despite the modest numbers, other countries shouldn\u2019t be complacent. It\u2019s in everyone\u2019s interest to help WHO and DRC bring this outbreak under control quickly.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Ebola virus disease\u00a0is\u00a0not as contagious as influenza or measles. But it can still spread exponentially fast.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/stopping-ebola-before-the-virus-goes-viral-97234\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Armstrong, Associate Professor of Operations Research in\u00a0Brock\u2019s Goodman School of Business, wrote a piece recently published in The Conversation about Ebola and its potential to rapidly spread.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,6],"tags":[594,5512],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51261"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51261"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51263,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51261\/revisions\/51263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}