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So she is more than willing to open her home to Nunu Sixay, an asthma prevention worker trying to figure out what is triggering the attacks. On a recent visit, Sixay found some possible culprits: mold in the bathroom and aerosol furniture polish in the kitchen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sixay’s work visiting low-income families like the Mondragons is part of a public health experiment to help asthmatic children breathe easier and stay out of costly emergency rooms – with the aim of getting investors to pay for it.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan is to create a “social impact bond,” a contract in which Wall Street and other investors agree to support programs with goals such as taxpayer savings and improved health outcomes. If the programs can demonstrate with solid evidence that they have met those goals, the investors recoup their principal and get a return, typically from the government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The asthma project is among the first to focus on improving health outcomes. But a rising number of “pay for success” projects are planned or underway around the nation, including in Ohio, Connecticut, South Carolina and Massachusetts. One seeks to expand early childhood education in Utah, for instance, and another to reduce homelessness in Colorado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Typically, private investors or foundations provide at least a portion of the seed money. Bank of America Merrill Lynch, for instance, raised $13.5 million from its investors for a New York project aimed at reducing recidivism and increasing employment among former inmates. Depending on the outcomes, which must be evaluated by an independent third party, the government will repay the investors and provide a return. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20235\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/07/photo-3.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-20235\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/07/photo-3-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Kaiser Permanente's newly opened medical center in Oakland. (Lisa Aliferis/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaiser's new hospital in Oakland is one of two sites that Kaiser has chosen to treat any Ebola patient that might present in its system. (Lisa Aliferis/KQED) \u003ccite>(Lisa Aliferis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hospitals in California are adapting to evolving guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control on how to best prepare for a possible Ebola patient. There are no known -- or suspected -- cases of the virus in California, but the infection of two nurses in Texas has hospitals here revamping their protocols.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Responsibility ultimately falls on each individual hospital to incorporate \u003ca title=\"http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/hcp/infection-prevention-and-control-recommendations.html\" href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/hcp/infection-prevention-and-control-recommendations.html\" target=\"_blank\">CDC guidelines\u003c/a> into its own Ebola response plan. The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) is providing guidance, but the state’s chief of communicable disease control, James Watt, says state help can only go so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reality is that every hospital situation is unique. The physical layout of the hospital is unique and needs to be taken into account. Also the equipment that (each) hospital has,” he said during a press briefing last week. “That's why it's really important for the training and the planning to be done at the facility level. That’s not something that can be one-size-fits-all.”\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Consolidating Care at Specific Hospitals\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, Kaiser Permanente has decided to focus its training efforts in particular areas. It wants to make sure health workers at all locations are trained to screen for Ebola. But it is doing its most intensive training at its Oakland and South Sacramento hospitals, the two sites it has designated to take any Ebola patient, should one occur within Kaiser's system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Stephen Parodi, an infectious disease specialist and director of hospital operations for Kaiser Northern California, says any Kaiser patient that becomes ill from the virus would be transferred to one of these two hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have 21 hospitals in Northern California,” he says. “We feel it would be best to consolidate the care of these individuals, so that we can ensure that we’ve got highly skilled, competent, well-trained teams that can provide the care that’s required.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hospitals like San Francisco General are counting on the state to establish a similar system of designated hospitals for treating Ebola patients, suspected or actual. State public health officials say they are actively looking to identify a handful of California hospitals that can operate as official Ebola biocontainment facilities. That list is expected in the coming week or two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone is eagerly waiting for a regional and statewide plan,” said Dr. Lisa Winston, who directs the inpatient service at SF General.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/173406956&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says that SF General could not be one of the designated sites because it has too many infrastructure limitations -- it's preparing for a big move in December. Also, SF General is the only Level 1 trauma center in San Francisco, and that raises other concerns. If its top staff were diverted to take care of an Ebola patient, Winston says, that would stress the system’s ability to care for people needing emergency care from gun shot wounds, car accidents, or other traumas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just want to make sure we’ve thought about that ahead of time,” Winston said. “We need to make sure we have the capability to appropriately manage all emergency situations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says they are incorporating these concerns into training exercises it is running this week and next to prepare staff for a possible Ebola case. But ultimately Winston says that SF General plans to rely on other hospitals to take over care of any patient that becomes very ill with the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other concerns are shared by hospitals throughout the state, like what to do with the medical waste that would be produced when caring for an Ebola patient. The CDC recommends burning it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But in California, we don’t have that option,” says Jan Emerson-Shea of the California Hospital Association. She says the state effectively prohibits burning medical waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Keep in mind too that one of the big challenges is the volume that might be generated from a patient with Ebola. Because everything that person comes into contact with, from bed linens, mattresses, paper cups, dishes, all of that has to be disposed of,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That waste can total eight 55-gallon drums each day. Emerson-Shea says hospitals are talking with various state officials now to determine what they would do with all that waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Public Information is Key\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The broader issue public health officials are grappling with is how to keep the public calm. Health officials say that Ebola presents no public health risk to Californians at this time. Yet community groups in Sacramento, Los Angeles, and Alameda county are complaining that West African immigrants are facing stigma from people who fear they present some kind of risk for Ebola –- even immigrants who haven’t returned home in more than a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re starting to hear stories that people are looking at West Africans strangely or trying to stay away,” says Dr. Muntu Davis, public health officer for Alameda County. “People are not letting people from West Africa into their house.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says the county is working to develop an outreach campaign to educate the community about Ebola and reduce unfounded fears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Transmission is \u003ca title=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/10/22/ebola-is-not-that-contagious-and-10-other-quick-facts/\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/10/22/ebola-is-not-that-contagious-and-10-other-quick-facts/\" target=\"_blank\">actually quite difficult \u003c/a>and only occurs if a person comes into contact with bodily fluids of another person who has symptoms of the virus: fever, vomiting, diarrhea. Someone who carries the virus but is not yet showing symptoms is not contagious, health officials stress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis and other health officials say the best thing people can do to protect their health right now, is to get a flu shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While it may not sound relevant, we have a coming flu season,” says Dr. Parodi of Kaiser, adding that more than 36,000 people die every year in the U.S. from influenza. “The most important thing you can do is get a flu shot. I can’t stress that enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>If you have further questions about Ebola, call the newly-established Ebola hotline at the California Department of Public Health: 855-421-5921. The line is open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Stephen Parodi, an infectious disease specialist and director of hospital operations for Kaiser Northern California, says any Kaiser patient that becomes ill from the virus would be transferred to one of these two hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have 21 hospitals in Northern California,” he says. “We feel it would be best to consolidate the care of these individuals, so that we can ensure that we’ve got highly skilled, competent, well-trained teams that can provide the care that’s required.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hospitals like San Francisco General are counting on the state to establish a similar system of designated hospitals for treating Ebola patients, suspected or actual. State public health officials say they are actively looking to identify a handful of California hospitals that can operate as official Ebola biocontainment facilities. That list is expected in the coming week or two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone is eagerly waiting for a regional and statewide plan,” said Dr. Lisa Winston, who directs the inpatient service at SF General.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/173406956&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says that SF General could not be one of the designated sites because it has too many infrastructure limitations -- it's preparing for a big move in December. Also, SF General is the only Level 1 trauma center in San Francisco, and that raises other concerns. 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The CDC recommends burning it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But in California, we don’t have that option,” says Jan Emerson-Shea of the California Hospital Association. She says the state effectively prohibits burning medical waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Keep in mind too that one of the big challenges is the volume that might be generated from a patient with Ebola. Because everything that person comes into contact with, from bed linens, mattresses, paper cups, dishes, all of that has to be disposed of,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That waste can total eight 55-gallon drums each day. Emerson-Shea says hospitals are talking with various state officials now to determine what they would do with all that waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Public Information is Key\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The broader issue public health officials are grappling with is how to keep the public calm. Health officials say that Ebola presents no public health risk to Californians at this time. Yet community groups in Sacramento, Los Angeles, and Alameda county are complaining that West African immigrants are facing stigma from people who fear they present some kind of risk for Ebola –- even immigrants who haven’t returned home in more than a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re starting to hear stories that people are looking at West Africans strangely or trying to stay away,” says Dr. Muntu Davis, public health officer for Alameda County. “People are not letting people from West Africa into their house.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says the county is working to develop an outreach campaign to educate the community about Ebola and reduce unfounded fears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Transmission is \u003ca title=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/10/22/ebola-is-not-that-contagious-and-10-other-quick-facts/\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/10/22/ebola-is-not-that-contagious-and-10-other-quick-facts/\" target=\"_blank\">actually quite difficult \u003c/a>and only occurs if a person comes into contact with bodily fluids of another person who has symptoms of the virus: fever, vomiting, diarrhea. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_22179\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/10/457205828-e1413999611876.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-22179\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/10/457205828-640x367.jpg\" alt=\"Two nurses at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas contracted Ebola from a patient they were treating, but 44 of 48 others who came in contact with the patient, including his fiancee, have completed their quarantine period and are cleared of the disease. The remaining four should complete their quarantine soon. (Mike Stone/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"367\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two nurses at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas contracted Ebola from a patient they were treating, but 44 of 48 others who came in contact with the patient, including his fiancee, have completed their quarantine period and are cleared of the disease. The remaining four should complete their quarantine soon. (Mike Stone/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Alison Bruzek,\u003c/strong> \u003ca title=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/10/22/356986015/quick-facts-about-ebola\" href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/10/22/356986015/quick-facts-about-ebola\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Basic information about Ebola isn't as clear as it probably could be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A\u003ca title=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/10/16/poll-more-than-half-of-americans-worry-about-ebola-outbreak-in-u-s/\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/10/16/poll-more-than-half-of-americans-worry-about-ebola-outbreak-in-u-s/\" target=\"_blank\"> recent poll\u003c/a> by the Harvard School of Public Health, for instance, found that 38 percent of Americans are worried that Ebola will infect them or a family member in the next year, despite assurances that the U.S. will stop Ebola in its tracks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We've put together a primer on what you need to know. We'll update it as new information develops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. It's Not That Contagious. Really.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each person who contracts the virus spreads it, on average, to one or two other people. \u003ca title=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/10/02/ebola-may-be-deadly-but-its-not-that-contagious/\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/10/02/ebola-may-be-deadly-but-its-not-that-contagious/\" target=\"_blank\">It's not as contagious\u003c/a> as HIV, SARS or measles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. Ebola Is Not Airborne...\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ebola is transmitted through bodily fluids, such as blood, sweat, saliva, breast milk, feces, urine and semen. However, infectious disease specialists say \u003ca title=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/10/17/356966590/why-wont-the-fear-of-airborne-ebola-go-away\" href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/10/17/356966590/why-wont-the-fear-of-airborne-ebola-go-away\" target=\"_blank\">Ebola is not an airborne disease\u003c/a>, like the flu.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. … but It Can Be Dangerous\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Ebola's not the deadliest contagious disease (defined as the mortality rate for people who are diagnosed), outbreaks can have fatality rates up to 90 percent, according to the World Health Organization. The fatality rate for the current outbreak in West Africa is \u003ca title=\"http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1411100\" href=\"http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1411100\" target=\"_blank\">estimated to be\u003c/a> about 70 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. Health Officials Oppose A Travel Ban\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca title=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/18/business/experts-oppose-ebola-travel-ban-saying-it-would-cut-off-worst-hit-countries.html?_r=1\" href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/18/business/experts-oppose-ebola-travel-ban-saying-it-would-cut-off-worst-hit-countries.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\">A travel ban\u003c/a>, health specialists say, would be difficult to impose and would cut off help to those countries in West Africa hit the hardest by the disease. Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said a ban would make it harder to track the travel itineraries of infected people. On Tuesday, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said travelers arriving from Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia must fly into one of five U.S. airports equipped for passenger screenings (see Fact 6).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5. We Can Help Stop Ebola By Asking People How They Feel...\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service tracked down possible cases of Ebola \u003ca title=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/10/03/353530016/a-simple-question-can-stop-ebola-how-do-you-feel\" href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/10/03/353530016/a-simple-question-can-stop-ebola-how-do-you-feel\" target=\"_blank\">by asking people\u003c/a> who came in contact with Thomas Eric Duncan how they felt and if they had a fever. The\u003ca title=\"http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs103/en/\" href=\"http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs103/en/\" target=\"_blank\"> first symptoms of Ebola \u003c/a>are a fever, fatigue, muscle pain, headache and sore throat, according to the World Health Organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>6. … or Taking Their Temperature\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Passengers flying from West Africa to Washington Dulles International, Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson, Newark Liberty International, Chicago's O'Hare and New York's John F. Kennedy International airport have their temperatures taken as part of Ebola screening. The \u003ca title=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/10/15/356398102/how-a-no-touch-thermometer-detects-a-fever\" href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/10/15/356398102/how-a-no-touch-thermometer-detects-a-fever\" target=\"_blank\">no-touch thermometers\u003c/a> used in airport screenings aren't perfect, but they're one step in identifying patients who may need further testing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>7. The Sick Need To Stay Home\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For people who have been in contact with someone who tested positive for Ebola,\u003ca title=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/10/03/353487190/heres-how-an-ebola-quarantine-works-in-the-united-states\" href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/10/03/353487190/heres-how-an-ebola-quarantine-works-in-the-united-states\" target=\"_blank\"> a 21-day quarantine\u003c/a> (the virus' incubation period ranges from 2 to 21 days) can help stop the spread of infection. Nearly all of the people quarantined in Dallas because they had contact with Thomas Eric Duncan have passed the 21-day mark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>8. And Their Pets Need To Be Considered\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spanish health authorities \u003ca title=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/goatsandsoda/2014/10/08/354582867/we-dont-know-a-lot-about-dogs-and-ebola-but-we-should\" href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/goatsandsoda/2014/10/08/354582867/we-dont-know-a-lot-about-dogs-and-ebola-but-we-should\" target=\"_blank\">euthanized the dog\u003c/a> of a nurse who was diagnosed with Ebola. We know the virus can live inside dogs because they produce antibodies against Ebola. But we don't know if dogs can transmit the virus to humans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>9. The U.S. Has Specialized Facilities For Patients\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Emory University Hospital has treated and successfully released three patients with Ebola, and the Nebraska Medical Center has treated and released two. These hospitals use \u003ca title=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/10/06/354083214/why-ebola-patients-are-getting-treatment-in-nebraska\" href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/10/06/354083214/why-ebola-patients-are-getting-treatment-in-nebraska\" target=\"_blank\">biocontainment units \u003c/a>to protect hospital staff and other patients. Nina Pham, a nurse who treated Thomas Eric Duncan, was flown from Dallas to the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Bethesda, Md.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>10. There Are Experimental Drugs, But They Need More Testing\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experimental drugs for Ebola are being developed, including \u003ca title=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/10/10/355184997/answering-your-questions-about-ebola-treatments-and-vaccines\" href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/10/10/355184997/answering-your-questions-about-ebola-treatments-and-vaccines\" target=\"_blank\">ZMapp,\u003c/a> which is produced in genetically modified tobacco plants. The drug was used to treat Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol earlier this year before the limited supply ran out. GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson and NewLink Genetics are working on experimental Ebola vaccines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>11. If You're Healthy, You Can Still Take That Safari\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ebola outbreak remains in West Africa, and countries other than those bordering Guinea, Liberia or Sierra Leone aren't considered to be at risk. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_22179\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/10/457205828-e1413999611876.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-22179\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/10/457205828-640x367.jpg\" alt=\"Two nurses at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas contracted Ebola from a patient they were treating, but 44 of 48 others who came in contact with the patient, including his fiancee, have completed their quarantine period and are cleared of the disease. The remaining four should complete their quarantine soon. (Mike Stone/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"367\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two nurses at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas contracted Ebola from a patient they were treating, but 44 of 48 others who came in contact with the patient, including his fiancee, have completed their quarantine period and are cleared of the disease. The remaining four should complete their quarantine soon. (Mike Stone/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Alison Bruzek,\u003c/strong> \u003ca title=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/10/22/356986015/quick-facts-about-ebola\" href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/10/22/356986015/quick-facts-about-ebola\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Basic information about Ebola isn't as clear as it probably could be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A\u003ca title=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/10/16/poll-more-than-half-of-americans-worry-about-ebola-outbreak-in-u-s/\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/10/16/poll-more-than-half-of-americans-worry-about-ebola-outbreak-in-u-s/\" target=\"_blank\"> recent poll\u003c/a> by the Harvard School of Public Health, for instance, found that 38 percent of Americans are worried that Ebola will infect them or a family member in the next year, despite assurances that the U.S. will stop Ebola in its tracks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We've put together a primer on what you need to know. We'll update it as new information develops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. It's Not That Contagious. Really.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each person who contracts the virus spreads it, on average, to one or two other people. \u003ca title=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/10/02/ebola-may-be-deadly-but-its-not-that-contagious/\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/10/02/ebola-may-be-deadly-but-its-not-that-contagious/\" target=\"_blank\">It's not as contagious\u003c/a> as HIV, SARS or measles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. Ebola Is Not Airborne...\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ebola is transmitted through bodily fluids, such as blood, sweat, saliva, breast milk, feces, urine and semen. However, infectious disease specialists say \u003ca title=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/10/17/356966590/why-wont-the-fear-of-airborne-ebola-go-away\" href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/10/17/356966590/why-wont-the-fear-of-airborne-ebola-go-away\" target=\"_blank\">Ebola is not an airborne disease\u003c/a>, like the flu.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. … but It Can Be Dangerous\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Ebola's not the deadliest contagious disease (defined as the mortality rate for people who are diagnosed), outbreaks can have fatality rates up to 90 percent, according to the World Health Organization. The fatality rate for the current outbreak in West Africa is \u003ca title=\"http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1411100\" href=\"http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1411100\" target=\"_blank\">estimated to be\u003c/a> about 70 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. Health Officials Oppose A Travel Ban\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca title=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/18/business/experts-oppose-ebola-travel-ban-saying-it-would-cut-off-worst-hit-countries.html?_r=1\" href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/18/business/experts-oppose-ebola-travel-ban-saying-it-would-cut-off-worst-hit-countries.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\">A travel ban\u003c/a>, health specialists say, would be difficult to impose and would cut off help to those countries in West Africa hit the hardest by the disease. Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said a ban would make it harder to track the travel itineraries of infected people. On Tuesday, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said travelers arriving from Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia must fly into one of five U.S. airports equipped for passenger screenings (see Fact 6).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5. We Can Help Stop Ebola By Asking People How They Feel...\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service tracked down possible cases of Ebola \u003ca title=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/10/03/353530016/a-simple-question-can-stop-ebola-how-do-you-feel\" href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/10/03/353530016/a-simple-question-can-stop-ebola-how-do-you-feel\" target=\"_blank\">by asking people\u003c/a> who came in contact with Thomas Eric Duncan how they felt and if they had a fever. The\u003ca title=\"http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs103/en/\" href=\"http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs103/en/\" target=\"_blank\"> first symptoms of Ebola \u003c/a>are a fever, fatigue, muscle pain, headache and sore throat, according to the World Health Organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>6. … or Taking Their Temperature\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Passengers flying from West Africa to Washington Dulles International, Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson, Newark Liberty International, Chicago's O'Hare and New York's John F. Kennedy International airport have their temperatures taken as part of Ebola screening. The \u003ca title=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/10/15/356398102/how-a-no-touch-thermometer-detects-a-fever\" href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/10/15/356398102/how-a-no-touch-thermometer-detects-a-fever\" target=\"_blank\">no-touch thermometers\u003c/a> used in airport screenings aren't perfect, but they're one step in identifying patients who may need further testing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>7. The Sick Need To Stay Home\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For people who have been in contact with someone who tested positive for Ebola,\u003ca title=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/10/03/353487190/heres-how-an-ebola-quarantine-works-in-the-united-states\" href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/10/03/353487190/heres-how-an-ebola-quarantine-works-in-the-united-states\" target=\"_blank\"> a 21-day quarantine\u003c/a> (the virus' incubation period ranges from 2 to 21 days) can help stop the spread of infection. Nearly all of the people quarantined in Dallas because they had contact with Thomas Eric Duncan have passed the 21-day mark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>8. And Their Pets Need To Be Considered\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spanish health authorities \u003ca title=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/goatsandsoda/2014/10/08/354582867/we-dont-know-a-lot-about-dogs-and-ebola-but-we-should\" href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/goatsandsoda/2014/10/08/354582867/we-dont-know-a-lot-about-dogs-and-ebola-but-we-should\" target=\"_blank\">euthanized the dog\u003c/a> of a nurse who was diagnosed with Ebola. We know the virus can live inside dogs because they produce antibodies against Ebola. But we don't know if dogs can transmit the virus to humans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>9. The U.S. Has Specialized Facilities For Patients\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Emory University Hospital has treated and successfully released three patients with Ebola, and the Nebraska Medical Center has treated and released two. These hospitals use \u003ca title=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/10/06/354083214/why-ebola-patients-are-getting-treatment-in-nebraska\" href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/10/06/354083214/why-ebola-patients-are-getting-treatment-in-nebraska\" target=\"_blank\">biocontainment units \u003c/a>to protect hospital staff and other patients. Nina Pham, a nurse who treated Thomas Eric Duncan, was flown from Dallas to the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Bethesda, Md.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>10. There Are Experimental Drugs, But They Need More Testing\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experimental drugs for Ebola are being developed, including \u003ca title=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/10/10/355184997/answering-your-questions-about-ebola-treatments-and-vaccines\" href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/10/10/355184997/answering-your-questions-about-ebola-treatments-and-vaccines\" target=\"_blank\">ZMapp,\u003c/a> which is produced in genetically modified tobacco plants. The drug was used to treat Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol earlier this year before the limited supply ran out. GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson and NewLink Genetics are working on experimental Ebola vaccines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>11. If You're Healthy, You Can Still Take That Safari\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ebola outbreak remains in West Africa, and countries other than those bordering Guinea, Liberia or Sierra Leone aren't considered to be at risk. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_22155\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/10/Ebola_003crop-e1413929297755.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-22155\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/10/Ebola_003crop-640x354.jpg\" alt=\"Gov. Jerry Brown and other state officials meet with California nurses to discuss Ebola preparedness. (Brad Alexander/Office of the Governor)\" width=\"640\" height=\"354\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Jerry Brown and other state officials meet with California nurses to discuss Ebola preparedness. (Brad Alexander/Office of the Governor)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gov. Jerry Brown met with top public health officials and nursing union leaders Tuesday to discuss efforts to prepare for Ebola. The meetings came on the heels of\u003ca title=\"http://www.npr.org/2014/10/20/357628395/cdc-releasing-new-guidelines-for-health-workers-treating-ebola\" href=\"http://www.npr.org/2014/10/20/357628395/cdc-releasing-new-guidelines-for-health-workers-treating-ebola\" target=\"_blank\"> new guidance\u003c/a> issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Monday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are no known cases of Ebola in California. But after two nurses in Texas became infected after treating an Ebola patient there, the CDC is now recommending that hospitals provide better protective equipment for health workers, and hands-on training for how to put it on and take it off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the California Nurses Association (CNA) says the guidelines don't go far enough.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland nurse Katy Roemer says the CNA wants the governor to issue a mandate that forces hospitals to follow through with the training, and the CNA wants hospitals to provide protective suits that go beyond CDC guidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We want full Hazmat suits,\" Roemer said in reference to hazardous materials suits, \"so that when we are in a room risking our lives taking care of these patients, that we are protected.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor's office did not respond to this request, but issued \u003ca title=\"http://gov.ca.gov/news.php?id=18759\" href=\"http://gov.ca.gov/news.php?id=18759\" target=\"_blank\">a statement\u003c/a> saying state officials are taking steps to ensure hospitals are prepared for Ebola.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sacramento Bee \u003ca title=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article3206175.html\" href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article3206175.html\" target=\"_blank\">released a video\u003c/a> of a press conference where RoseAnn DeMoro, executive director of the National Nurses United/CNA, stated that \"none of the hospitals in California are prepared for Ebola.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\u003ca class=\"embedly-card\" href=\"http://youtu.be/qwH5dAM7MVc\">Nurses call California hospitals unprepared for Ebola\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>The California Hospital Association rebutted the nurses and \u003ca title=\"http://www.calhospital.org/sites/main/files/file-attachments/cha_acnl_ana_ebola_statement_102014.pdf\" href=\"http://www.calhospital.org/sites/main/files/file-attachments/cha_acnl_ana_ebola_statement_102014.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">issued a statement\u003c/a> of its own, saying that California hospitals are prepared for Ebola.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, across the country, federal authorities are now routing all passengers traveling to the U.S. from West African countries affected by the Ebola virus through one of five airports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of those airports are in California. But the state’s busiest -- Los Angeles International Airport -- is taking precautions anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>L.A. County’s public health chief, Dr. Jeffrey Gunzenhauser, says his office will be working closely with the handful of U.S. airports now screening all passengers who arrive from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says if any of those passengers are then headed to LAX, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health will know about it. “If the last point of the travel is actually our city,” says Gunzenhauser, “this will really provide us a great opportunity to monitor the individuals who just traveled from West Africa to Los Angeles County.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Santa Clara County, health officials provided their third update to the Board of Supervisors. The officials say they’ve implemented Ebola screening at the emergency department of Valley Medical Center in San Jose and other health care settings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Peter Jon Shuler and Steven Cuevas contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_22123\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/10/Screen-Shot-2014-10-20-at-10.36.01-AM-e1413826601647.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-22123\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/10/Screen-Shot-2014-10-20-at-10.36.01-AM-640x417.png\" alt=\"Mario Savio stands on top of police car in front of Sproul Hall on Oct 1. 1964. (Courtesy of UC Berkeley, The Bancroft Library).\" width=\"640\" height=\"417\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mario Savio stands on top of police car in front of UC Berkeley's Sproul Hall on Oct 1. 1964. The protest is considered the birth of the Free Speech Movement. (Courtesy of UC Berkeley, The Bancroft Library).\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Erika Kelly\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley, the originator of movements ranging from Free Speech to Healthy Eating has a new cause: taking on the soft drink industry. On November 4th, the city's voters will decide whether to tax sodas and other sugar-sweetened beverages.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'My entire family has been a part of activism around Berkeley.'\u003cbr> -- Dr. Vicki Alexander\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>No such tax has ever passed anywhere in the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The effort is bringing out progressives in Berkeley who have lobbied for social change for decades. Berkeley city leaders and health advocates have joined a coalition to support the measure, in hopes of igniting a nationwide fight against soda consumption. Meanwhile, the beverage industry is spending big to defeat the measure.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A History of Activism\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The supporters of Measure D see it as the next chapter in Berkeley’s history of social activism. Dr. Vicki Alexander has been working on public health and other social issues in this community for half a century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My entire family has been a part of activism around Berkeley,\" says Alexander. \"The Free Speech Movement the Free Mandela Movement -- just one after another after another -- we were involved.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexander was there 50 years ago at UC Berkeley confrontation at Sproul Hall between students and the administration -- a confrontation credited with launching the Free Speech Movement. Berkeley also helped launch an effort toward healthy eating, led by Alice Waters and Berkeley's schoolyard gardens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years ago, funding cuts threatened some of those gardens, and the seed was planted for the beverage tax, says Alexander.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The parents of the kids who benefited from the gardens in the schools,\" Alexander says, \"and people in the community who benefited from the gardens started [asking], 'How can we have a source of funding that's ongoing?'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Building A Coalition\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They knew they were taking on a tough opponent -- the beverage industry. Beverage taxes have been tried in 30 cities and states. They've all failed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The opposition often successfully argues that this kind of tax would hurt low-income minority communities. So early on Berkeley activists began building a \u003ca title=\"http://www.berkeleyvsbigsoda.com/supporters\" href=\"http://www.berkeleyvsbigsoda.com/supporters\" target=\"_blank\">coalition that included African-Americans and Latinos\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/173030570\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carol McGruder works with the Berkeley chapter of the NAACP. She says she's involved as part of her focus on health in the African-American community. She says she was \"very disappointed\" when New York City's local NAACP sided against the ban on large servings of soda that was proposed there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And in Richmond I know that big soda hired a lot of people from the community, from minority groups, to do telephone polling against it,“ McGruder says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Berkeley pro-tax campaign is also tapping into a broad network of\u003ca title=\"http://www.berkeleyvsbigsoda.com/supporters\" href=\"http://www.berkeleyvsbigsoda.com/supporters\" target=\"_blank\"> community groups\u003c/a>. Take the Ecology Center. It's been around for more than 40 years, and is known for pioneering Berkeley's curbside recycling program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ecology Center marshaled resources including campaign foot soldiers like 22-year-old Kad Smith, who works on nutrition programs for the center. He’s spending weekends canvassing, and his evenings phone banking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our message is that there is an overwhelming and urgent health crisis in our community,” says Smith. \"We see those disparities especially in south and west Berkeley, which is a low-income community, which is also populated by a lot of people of color. It’s an overwhelming health crisis with obesity, diabetes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \"yes\" campaign is also drawing support from outside the community. Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who tried and failed to put a cap on the size of sodas sold in that city, recently donated $85,000 to the Berkeley effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Big Money From a Big Opponent\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drive around Berkeley and you will see bright red “Yes on D” signs blooming in yard after yard, suggesting the measure's success is at hand. But the beverage industry is very good at fighting this fight, very good at sowing doubt about the benefits of this kind of tax. So far they've \u003ca title=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/10/beverage-industry-spends-big-to-defeat-berkeley-measure-d\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/10/beverage-industry-spends-big-to-defeat-berkeley-measure-d\" target=\"_blank\">spent more than $1.6 million dollars\u003c/a> in Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Ashby BART station, it’s easy to see where some of that money is going. There are signs everywhere that say, “Measure D is not what is seems.” A bunch of them have a big piece of glossy fruit that on the outside looks like an apple and on the inside looks like an orange. The tagline says, “On November 4th, vote no on Measure D.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"UB8RkOYJaiQH1WslpAfI0RKMkE32mdwG\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katie Merrill is a democratic political strategist based in Berkeley. She says the beverage industry's tactics work. It’s easier to kill this kind of measure than to pass it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You're hearing the measure is flawed, it won't do what it says it will; the money won't be spent in the way that the proponents say it will.” says Merrill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The beverage industry argues there's no guarantee the tax income will support school gardens or other health programs. Instead it will end up in Berkeley's general fund, where it could be used to pay for anything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campaign spokesman Roger Salazar says the anti-tax support is coming from some unions and small businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joshua Kemper owns one of those small businesses, Smokey J’s BBQ on Shattuck Avenue. Campaign fliers for No on D cover the tables in his small restaurant. He says the tax could hurt his business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be passed onto the people that buy stuff here,\" Kemper says. \"That’s increasing the cost of the overall food. They’re spending more money when they come here, but I don’t see any of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get their message out, \u003ca title=\"http://noberkeleybeveragetax.com\" href=\"http://noberkeleybeveragetax.com\" target=\"_blank\">the no campaign\u003c/a> is also paying teams of young people, some from as far away as Hayward, who are going door to door, every day until the election. They're articulate and very persuasive. Salazar says they're relying on that kind of street outreach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They go out, share the information that we have,” says Salazar. “Encourage them to read the initiative for themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Is Big Soda The Next Big Tobacco?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Berkeley vs. Big Soda” is the official tag line of the Yes on D campaign. The slogan is featured on their t-shirts, their yard signs, and is even the \u003ca title=\"http://www.berkeleyvsbigsoda.com\" href=\"http://www.berkeleyvsbigsoda.com\" target=\"_blank\">campaign's website URL\u003c/a>. Proponents argue that there are parallels between the soda industry and tobacco companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Yes on D campaign even hosted a forum called “Is Soda The New Tobacco,” featuring Stan Glantz, a UCSF professor of medicine who has long fought for public health policies, including tobacco taxes to reduce smoking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Political strategist Katie Merrill says those who think they can take on the soda industry should consider it a long haul.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The soda industry is not the tobacco industry, it's not the oil industry,” says Merrill. “People haven't spent 30 years in high visibility battles against the soda industry”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, it's just that kind of battle that Berkeley activists say they're known for.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The supporters of Measure D see it as the next chapter in Berkeley’s history of social activism. Dr. Vicki Alexander has been working on public health and other social issues in this community for half a century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My entire family has been a part of activism around Berkeley,\" says Alexander. \"The Free Speech Movement the Free Mandela Movement -- just one after another after another -- we were involved.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexander was there 50 years ago at UC Berkeley confrontation at Sproul Hall between students and the administration -- a confrontation credited with launching the Free Speech Movement. Berkeley also helped launch an effort toward healthy eating, led by Alice Waters and Berkeley's schoolyard gardens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years ago, funding cuts threatened some of those gardens, and the seed was planted for the beverage tax, says Alexander.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The parents of the kids who benefited from the gardens in the schools,\" Alexander says, \"and people in the community who benefited from the gardens started [asking], 'How can we have a source of funding that's ongoing?'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Building A Coalition\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They knew they were taking on a tough opponent -- the beverage industry. Beverage taxes have been tried in 30 cities and states. They've all failed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The opposition often successfully argues that this kind of tax would hurt low-income minority communities. So early on Berkeley activists began building a \u003ca title=\"http://www.berkeleyvsbigsoda.com/supporters\" href=\"http://www.berkeleyvsbigsoda.com/supporters\" target=\"_blank\">coalition that included African-Americans and Latinos\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/173030570&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/173030570'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carol McGruder works with the Berkeley chapter of the NAACP. She says she's involved as part of her focus on health in the African-American community. She says she was \"very disappointed\" when New York City's local NAACP sided against the ban on large servings of soda that was proposed there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And in Richmond I know that big soda hired a lot of people from the community, from minority groups, to do telephone polling against it,“ McGruder says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Berkeley pro-tax campaign is also tapping into a broad network of\u003ca title=\"http://www.berkeleyvsbigsoda.com/supporters\" href=\"http://www.berkeleyvsbigsoda.com/supporters\" target=\"_blank\"> community groups\u003c/a>. Take the Ecology Center. It's been around for more than 40 years, and is known for pioneering Berkeley's curbside recycling program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ecology Center marshaled resources including campaign foot soldiers like 22-year-old Kad Smith, who works on nutrition programs for the center. He’s spending weekends canvassing, and his evenings phone banking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our message is that there is an overwhelming and urgent health crisis in our community,” says Smith. \"We see those disparities especially in south and west Berkeley, which is a low-income community, which is also populated by a lot of people of color. It’s an overwhelming health crisis with obesity, diabetes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \"yes\" campaign is also drawing support from outside the community. Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who tried and failed to put a cap on the size of sodas sold in that city, recently donated $85,000 to the Berkeley effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Big Money From a Big Opponent\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drive around Berkeley and you will see bright red “Yes on D” signs blooming in yard after yard, suggesting the measure's success is at hand. But the beverage industry is very good at fighting this fight, very good at sowing doubt about the benefits of this kind of tax. So far they've \u003ca title=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/10/beverage-industry-spends-big-to-defeat-berkeley-measure-d\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/10/beverage-industry-spends-big-to-defeat-berkeley-measure-d\" target=\"_blank\">spent more than $1.6 million dollars\u003c/a> in Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Ashby BART station, it’s easy to see where some of that money is going. There are signs everywhere that say, “Measure D is not what is seems.” A bunch of them have a big piece of glossy fruit that on the outside looks like an apple and on the inside looks like an orange. The tagline says, “On November 4th, vote no on Measure D.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katie Merrill is a democratic political strategist based in Berkeley. She says the beverage industry's tactics work. It’s easier to kill this kind of measure than to pass it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You're hearing the measure is flawed, it won't do what it says it will; the money won't be spent in the way that the proponents say it will.” says Merrill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The beverage industry argues there's no guarantee the tax income will support school gardens or other health programs. Instead it will end up in Berkeley's general fund, where it could be used to pay for anything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campaign spokesman Roger Salazar says the anti-tax support is coming from some unions and small businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joshua Kemper owns one of those small businesses, Smokey J’s BBQ on Shattuck Avenue. Campaign fliers for No on D cover the tables in his small restaurant. He says the tax could hurt his business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be passed onto the people that buy stuff here,\" Kemper says. \"That’s increasing the cost of the overall food. They’re spending more money when they come here, but I don’t see any of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get their message out, \u003ca title=\"http://noberkeleybeveragetax.com\" href=\"http://noberkeleybeveragetax.com\" target=\"_blank\">the no campaign\u003c/a> is also paying teams of young people, some from as far away as Hayward, who are going door to door, every day until the election. They're articulate and very persuasive. Salazar says they're relying on that kind of street outreach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They go out, share the information that we have,” says Salazar. “Encourage them to read the initiative for themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Is Big Soda The Next Big Tobacco?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Berkeley vs. Big Soda” is the official tag line of the Yes on D campaign. 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And that's correct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Body fluids, such as blood, urine and feces, \u003ca title=\"http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/pdf/infographic.pdf\" href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/pdf/infographic.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">can carry the virus\u003c/a> from one person to another. And almost all the poll respondents (95 percent) agreed that direct contact with body fluids from a person with Ebola symptoms was likely to cause infection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A large proportion (85 percent) of people believes the virus can be transmitted by a sneeze or cough. That's highly unlikely. \"Common sense and observation tell us that spread of the virus via coughing or sneezing is rare, if it happens at all,\" \u003ca title=\"http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/ebola/06-october-2014/en/\" href=\"http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/ebola/06-october-2014/en/\" target=\"_blank\">the World Health Organization says\u003c/a>.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, says there is no known case of Ebola being spread that way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think the public has received Ebola 101, but not Ebola 102,\" he said of the Harvard poll results on\u003ca title=\"http://www.npr.org/2014/10/15/356451168/poll-40-percent-of-americans-feel-at-risk-for-getting-ebola\" href=\"http://www.npr.org/2014/10/15/356451168/poll-40-percent-of-americans-feel-at-risk-for-getting-ebola\" target=\"_blank\"> Wednesday's \u003cem>All Things Considered\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em> \"Those kinds of subtleties actually are pretty hard to communicate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The telephone poll of 1,004 adults was conducted October 8-12. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_22141\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/10/Screen-Shot-2014-10-20-at-4.40.44-PM-e1413848883963.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-22141\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/10/Screen-Shot-2014-10-20-at-4.40.44-PM-640x284.png\" alt=\"(Adam Cole, NPR)\" width=\"640\" height=\"284\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Adam Cole, NPR)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Michaeleen Doucleff\u003c/strong>, \u003ca title=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/10/02/352983774/no-seriously-how-contagious-is-ebola\" href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/10/02/352983774/no-seriously-how-contagious-is-ebola\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update on Oct. 8: The Ebola patient in Dallas, the first diagnosed with the virus in the U.S.\u003c/strong>, \u003ca title=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/10/08/354577799/dallas-ebola-patient-thomas-eric-duncan-dies-hospital-says\" href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/10/08/354577799/dallas-ebola-patient-thomas-eric-duncan-dies-hospital-says\" target=\"_blank\">has died\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holy moly! There's a case of Ebola in the U.S.!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That first reaction was understandable. There's no question the disease is scary. The World Health Organization now \u003ca title=\"http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1411100\" href=\"http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1411100\" target=\"_blank\">estimates\u003c/a> that the virus has killed about 70 percent of people infected in West Africa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ebola case in Dallas is the first one diagnosed outside Africa, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday. And the health care system in Texas didn't quarantine the man right away. He was sick with Ebola — and contagious — for four days before he was admitted to the hospital.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when you look at health officials responding to the case in Dallas, they seem cool as cucumbers, despite the initial misstep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have no doubt that we will control this importation, or case, of Ebola so that it does not spread widely in this country,\" \u003ca title=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/09/30/352815781/first-u-s-case-of-ebola-confirmed-in-dallas\" href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/09/30/352815781/first-u-s-case-of-ebola-confirmed-in-dallas\" target=\"_blank\">said the director of the CDC, Dr. Tom Frieden\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why is Frieden so sure this virus won't spread beyond a handful of cases?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It boils down to something called \"\u003ca title=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/09/30/352815781/first-u-s-case-of-ebola-confirmed-in-dallas\" href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/09/30/352815781/first-u-s-case-of-ebola-confirmed-in-dallas\" target=\"_blank\">R0\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reproduction number, or \"R nought,\" is a mathematical term that tells you how contagious an infectious disease is. Specifically, it's the number of people who catch the disease from one sick person, on average, in an outbreak.*\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take, for example, measles. The virus is one of the most contagious diseases known to man. Its R0 sits around 18. That means each person with the measles spreads it to 18 people, on average, when nobody is vaccinated. (When everyone is vaccinated, the R0 drops to essentially zero for measles).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the other end of the spectrum are viruses like HIV and hepatitis C. Their R0s tend to fall somewhere between 2 and 4. They're still big problems, but they spread much more slowly than the measles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that brings us back to Ebola. Despite its nasty reputation, the virus's R0 really isn't that impressive. It typically sits around 1.5 to 2.0.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even in the current epidemic in West Africa, where the virus has been out of control, each person who has gotten sick has spread Ebola to only about two others, on average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why is that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many factors contribute to the R0, such as how long you're infectious** and how many virus particles are needed to make another person sick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in Ebola's case, the mode of transmission probably helps keep its R0 low. Ebola isn't spread through the air, like the measles or flu. It requires close contact with some bodily fluid, such as blood or vomit, containing the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now at this point, you're probably thinking, \"OK. But an R0 of 2 is nothing to brush off.\" You're right. 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