1:00 Dose of Ebolology: If we should be calm, why is the news hysterical? Where Can I find information for myself?

Say it with me: Cable news networks are for entertainment. Their objective is not necessarily to inform you; it is to keep you watching. In other words, the news has a vested interest in your freaking out, and therefore staying tuned. Some of us have strong opinions of this being akin to yelling fire in a crowded theater, but I digress. I want to share some good links that rather than providing narratives and stories, provide data (and often blogs from the field, for interest). They provide things like numbers of cases, geography and distribution of cases, numbers of available (or needed!) hospital beds, and efficacy of experimental treatments. If you want to be informed, these are the places to go. Here are some links and descriptions:

The home page for the World Health Organization. See the entire Ebola section on the right hand menu.
http://www.who.int/en/

The Disease Outbreak News for the WHO. This includes all reportable diseases, not just Ebola.
http://www.who.int/csr/don/en/

The Ebola page for Doctors Without Borders (MSF).
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/.../medical.../ebola...

The home page for the International Society for Infectious Diseases
http://www.isid.org/index.shtml

PROmed is a reporting service, where disease outbreak news items are posted. This is hosted by the ISID.
http://www.isid.org/promedmail/promedmail.shtml