There reached a point in the early days of the AIDS crisis when Don Francis stopped going to funerals. “I got so bummed out,” he says. “I’d never been in an outbreak before where I knew so many people. With HIV, there were so many leaders and people I knew who died.”
UPDATE Jan. 30: Officials report the test for the Ebola virus has come back negative.
Ebola has nothing on measles in terms of contagiousness. Epidemiologists have pinned the “reproduction number,” or average number of people a …
Actually, you probably won't believe the Monterey County Health Department is saying anything at all about Ebola, a hemorrhagic virus that's r…