Montgomery Community Media

Zalgen Labs is a biotech startup company in Montgomery County that is celebrating its one year anniversary at the Germantown Innovation Center. MyMCMedia’s Sonya Burke reports. You can find more information about the Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Consortium on its website.

Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley convened several state agencies including the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH), in partnership with the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security, to participate in a Cabinet-level exercise to test the state’s ability to respond to a medical emergency. There have been no cases of Ebola in Maryland, and the […]

It’s the worse Ebola outbreak ever. In this MyMCMedia extra, Dr. Robert Garry of Tulane University tells MyMCMedia’s Sonya Burke earlier this summer about a Montgomery County based company that is helping fight the Ebola outbreak and Lassa hemorrhagic fever (LHF). You can find out more about Zalgen labs here. Related:

This week Hope for Lives in Sierra Leone in Germantown and Brother’s Brother Foundation (BBF) in Merrifield, VA and Pittsburgh, PA put together a donation of medical supplies and equipment for Connaught Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone. This is the first medical shipment sponsored by Hope for Lives in Sierra Leone, an organization led by Sierra […]

In this MyMCMedia extra, Dr. Robert Garry of Tulane University says the current Ebola health crisis is at “a tipping point” in western Africa: Garry was recently in Montgomery County meeting with officials at NIH, Health and Human Services and the State Department to talk about how the United States can do more to address […]

In this MyMCMedia extra, Dr. Robert Garry of Tulane University tells us about another hemorrhagic fever that is endemic in Sierra Leone. Lassa fever presents with the same symptoms as Ebola fever but it is caused by a different virus. Garry was in our area on June 19 meeting with Health and Human Services and […]

It’s the worst Ebola outbreak ever. In this MyMCMedia extra, Dr. Robert Garry of Tulane University tells us about efforts to enlist aid from the U.S. government in the Ebola outbreak in western Africa: Garry was in our area on June 19 meeting with Health and Human Services and the State Department. He will be […]

In this MyMCMedia extra, Dr. Robert Garry of Tulane University tells us about the other dangers of an Ebola outbreak: Garry was in our area on June 19 meeting with Health and Human Services and the State Department. He will be at NIH on June 20. The virologist just returned from Sierra Leone and says […]