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KBOO
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Air date:
Mon, 10/20/2014 - 12:00am
Interview with Dr. Lisa Brousseau, Professor in Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
In mid-September, Dr. Lisa Brosseau and Dr. Rachael Jones wrote a commentary for CIDRAP News, a service of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and policy at the University of Minnesota, titled “Health Workers need optimal respiratory protection for Ebola.”
Brosseau and Jones are professors in the School of Public Health, Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences at the University of Illinois, Chicago.
Their article was picked up by some right-wing bloggers, who exaggerated and misattributed some of its contents, adding fuel to the fire of sensationalistic media coverage of the current Ebola outbreak, as well as to the politicization of the issue during this campaign season.
On October 16, CIDRAP News published a “Response to statements falsely attributed to CIDRAP regarding Ebola transmission,” while standing by the scientific soundness and importance of the contents of the Commentary.
The central issue of Brosseau and Jones’ commentary, regarding the need to protect health workers and aides from possible exposure to Ebola via infectious aerosol particles, is a critical one that has been largely ignored by the medical establishment.
On Saturday, KBOO’s Paul Roland spoke by phone with Dr. Brosseau to get a fuller understanding of the issues raised by the article.
Link http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2014/09/commentary-health-workers-need-optimal-respiratory-protection-ebola
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/10/17/ebola-capitalism-and-the-idea-of-society/
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/10/10/ebola-the-african-union-and-bioeconomic-warfare/print
Brosseau and Jones are professors in the School of Public Health, Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences at the University of Illinois, Chicago.
Their article was picked up by some right-wing bloggers, who exaggerated and misattributed some of its contents, adding fuel to the fire of sensationalistic media coverage of the current Ebola outbreak, as well as to the politicization of the issue during this campaign season.
On October 16, CIDRAP News published a “Response to statements falsely attributed to CIDRAP regarding Ebola transmission,” while standing by the scientific soundness and importance of the contents of the Commentary.
The central issue of Brosseau and Jones’ commentary, regarding the need to protect health workers and aides from possible exposure to Ebola via infectious aerosol particles, is a critical one that has been largely ignored by the medical establishment.
On Saturday, KBOO’s Paul Roland spoke by phone with Dr. Brosseau to get a fuller understanding of the issues raised by the article.
Link http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2014/09/commentary-health-workers-need-optimal-respiratory-protection-ebola
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/10/17/ebola-capitalism-and-the-idea-of-society/
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/10/10/ebola-the-african-union-and-bioeconomic-warfare/print
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