By Janina Kehr This article is part of the series: Ebola fieldnotes A few months ago, the independent Spanish online newspaper El Diario published a cartoon entitled “Ebola in Madrid”. It showed a health worker, camouflaged in a green protection suit, wearing a white head shield and goggles, leaning over a …
By Sophie Kleeman October 7, 2014, on Mic.com The Ebola epidemic has killed 3,431 people in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia; it has killed one in the United States. Liberia’s Defense Minister Brownie Samukai told the U.N. Security Council in September that the disease poses a “serious threat” to the country’s …
Ebola is a problem that will not be solved, because it isn’t profitable to do so. by Leigh Phillips The Onion, as ever, is on point with its “coverage” of the worst recorded outbreak of Ebola, and the first in West Africa, infecting some 1,779 people and killing at least 961. …
Guillaume Lachenal a publié sur le site internet de Libération, en date du 18 septembre 2014, une très intéressante tribune traitant de l’épidémie actuelle du virus Ebola. «Inutile d’interpréter laborieusement les films catastrophe dans leur rapport à une crise sociale “objective” ou même à un phantasme “objectif” de catastrophe», écrivait Jean Baudrillard …
The aim of this briefing paper is to consider the various ways in which widely reported fear and resistance to the Ebola response can be understood, and what each way of understanding offers to those battling with the current epidemic. As far as this paper is concerned, there is no …
The truth about Ebola STEPS Centre researchers are studying how Ebola and other zoonotic diseases are understood by different actors in the media, institutions and localities in Africa. Our work sets dominant views of Ebola based on security, global risks and biomedical framings of the disease, against neglected perspectives based …
Film de Frédéric Brunnquell et Alain Epelboin Comment parer à une urgence médicale tout en respectant les coutumes et les croyances d’une population ? Et comment sensibiliser des familles en détresse aux dangers d’un virus meurtrier ? Retour au Congo sur les lieux d’une épidémie effrayante. Ebola : …
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Case counts updated in conjunction with the World Health Organization updates and are based on information reported by the Ministries of Health As of October 12, 2014 (Updated October 15, 2014) Countries with Widespread Transmission Country Total Cases Laboratory-Confirmed Cases Total Deaths Guinea 1472 1184 843 Liberia 4249 950 2458 …
Caring as existential insecurity: quarantine, care, and human insecurity in the Ebola crisis By Sung-Joon Park and René Umlauf Ebola 2014. Chronicle of a well-prepared disaster By Guillaume Lachenal From the dragon’s perspective: an initial report on China’s response to the unfolding Ebola epidemic By Emilio Dirlikov and Qiuyu Jiang …
Since early 2014, the international coverage of Africa has been dominated by the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Much of that coverage represents the region as helpless and hopeless, a tragic victim of illogical beliefs and dangerous cultural practices. The contributors to this Hot Spots series offer their personal and …