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10 Min Read

Tuberculosis in Kansas, Ebola virus update, and rising egg prices due to bird flu outbreak 2025 [Podcast]

The AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. Learn more about tuberculosis cases in the U.S. and the emergence of a new bird flu strain H5N9.

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Infectious Diseases
AMA Update Podcast

Health care CME on infectious disease

Infectious Diseases Society of America Education on AMA Ed Hub™ provides lifelong learning for health care professionals interested in infectious diseases updates developed by experts.

AMA Update for Feb. 5, 2025: Tuberculosis in Kansas, Ebola virus update, and rising egg prices due to bird flu outbreak 2025
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10 Min Read

Tuberculosis in Kansas, Ebola virus update, and rising egg prices due to bird flu outbreak 2025

The AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. Learn more about tuberculosis cases in the U.S. and the emergence of a new bird flu strain H5N9.

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Infectious Diseases
AMA Update
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12 Min Read

COVID boosters, flu season and the Ebola outbreak with Andrea Garcia, JD, MPH [Podcast]

The AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. Learn more about COVID boosters, flu season and the Ebola outbreak.

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Infectious Diseases
AMA Update Podcast
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12 Min Read

COVID boosters, flu season and the Ebola outbreak with Andrea Garcia, JD, MPH

The AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. Learn more about COVID boosters, flu season and the Ebola outbreak.

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Infectious Diseases
AMA Update

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4 Min Read

Former acting U.S. surgeon general earns AMA’s top honor

From ground zero of the Ebola crisis to New York’s ground zero, Boris Lushniak, MD, MPH, served with distinction.

Awards
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4 Min Read

Physician who contracted Ebola among award winners

Dr. Kent Brantly, medical director of the only Ebola treatment unit in southern Liberia, received the AMA Foundation the Dr. Nathan Davis International Award in Medicine. Three other physicians received awards for exemplifying medicine’s highest values: leadership, community service and dedication to treating underserved patients.

Infectious Diseases
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1 Min Read

How to prepare your hospital to handle Ebola: Free resources

In the video, Arjun Srinivasan, MD, an expert from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and captain in the U.S. Public Health Service, discusses how physicians can prepare for and manage Ebola patients in hospital and ambulatory care settings.

Infectious Diseases
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3 Min Read

Declaration of Helsinki a reminder that medicine has no boundaries

If there’s one thing the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has shown us, it’s that diseases and pandemics do not respect boundaries. In a globalized world, what affects one country’s physicians and patients can affect all of us, no matter where we are.

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Leadership
Leadership Viewpoints
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From Ebola to MOC: Top 10 stories from AMA Interim Meeting

Here are the top stories from the 2014 AMA Interim Meeting in Dallas. See full coverage of the meeting at AMA Wire®. They covered Ebols, MOC, expanded access to Medicare and caring for veterans.

Interim Meeting