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WHO: Air travel is low-risk for Ebola transmission

08/14/2014

| Anglais/English/Inglés, Health and Well-Being

GENEVA ¦14 August 2014– The World Health Organization (WHO) today reiterated its position that the risk of transmission of Ebola virus disease during air travel remains low. “Unlike infections such as influenza or tuberculosis, Ebola is not airborne,” says Dr Isabelle Nuttall, Director of WHO Global Capacity Alert and Response. “It can only be transmitted by direct contact with the body fluids of a person who is sick with the disease.” On the small chance that someone on the…

What to believe and what not to believe

08/12/2014

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| Anglais/English/Inglés, Editorial

Considerable progress has been made in technology. Look at mobile telephones and the Internet. Today, many people enjoy a standard of living much higher than that of their parents. So what is really happening? Are the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer, as one recent analysis suggested? Will the middle class disappear, as many social scientists predict, and if so what will replace it? How will posterity look upon our society? What kind of world will we…