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Against Sick States: Ebola Protests in Austerity Spain – Somatosphere

October 23, 2014 | Filed under: English, Epidemiology & Public Health, Politics & Economy, Society & Culture, Spain, Uncategorized

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 …

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One Powerful Illustration Shows Exactly What’s Wrong With How the West Talks About Ebola

October 21, 2014 | Filed under: English, Guinea, Investigative journalism, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Society & Culture

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 …

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The Political Economy of Ebola

October 21, 2014 | Filed under: English, Guinea, Investigative journalism, Liberia, Politics & Economy, Sierra Leone, Society & Culture

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. …

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Chronique d’un film catastrophe bien preparé – Libération

October 21, 2014 | Filed under: Epidemiology & Public Health, French, Guinea, Investigative journalism, Liberia, Politics & Economy, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Society & Culture

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 …

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The significance of death, funerals and the after-life in Ebola-hit Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia: Anthropological insights into infection and social resistance

October 20, 2014 | Filed under: English, Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Society & Culture, Working papers

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 …

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Ebola & animal-to-human diseases – STEPS Center

October 20, 2014 | Filed under: Biology/Virology, Biomedicine/Clinical, English, Epidemiology & Public Health, Guinea, Liberia, Peer reviewed, Politics & Economy, Sierra Leone, Society & Culture

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 …

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Vidéo : Ebola, ce n’est pas une maladie pour rire

October 20, 2014 | Filed under: Biology/Virology, French, Peer reviewed, Society & Culture, Visual

  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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Ebola Facts Infographic

October 20, 2014 | Filed under: English, Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Society & Culture, Visual

In English: http://www.ebolafacts.com/fr/1-what-is-ebola.html In French: http://www.ebolafacts.com/en/1-what-is-ebola.html Full Infographic: http://www.ebolafacts.com/en/7-help.html

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Ebola Outbreak in West Africa – Case Count – CDC

October 20, 2014 | Filed under: English, Epidemiology & Public Health, Guinea, Liberia, Peer reviewed, Sierra Leone, Society & Culture

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 …

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Somatosphere’s series: Ebola fieldnotes

October 20, 2014 | Filed under: Countries, English, Peer reviewed, Society & Culture

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 …

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Ebola in Perspective – Cultural Anthropology Journal

October 14, 2014 | Filed under: English, Epidemiology & Public Health, Guinea, Liberia, Peer reviewed, Politics & Economy, Sierra Leone, Society & Culture

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 …

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RSS Somatosphere

  • Writing Life (no. 21): An interview with Ruth Behar by Natashe Lemos Dekker
  • The emergence of multimorbidity as a matter of concern by Esca van Blarikom
  • Writing Life No. 20: An Interview with Emma Kowal by Carina Truyts
  • Making embryos lively: The politics of embryo personhood when fertilization happens under a microscope by Manon Lefèvre
  • On the Power and Nourishment of Multidisciplinary Inquiry: Remembering Adele H. Hite by Nutrire CoLab

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  • Marburg virus disease: the paradox of Nigeria's preparedness and priority effects in co-epidemics
  • Application and comparison of lyophilisation protocols to enhance stable long-term storage of filovirus pseudotypes for use in antibody neutralisation tests
  • Multi-Pathogen Innovative (5 in 1) Vaccine for Viral Haemorrhagic Fevers will Save More Lives
  • Application of Cell Penetrating Peptides as a Promising Drug Carrier to Combat Viral Infections
  • Lung-Targeted Transgene Expression of Nanocomplexed Ad5 Enhances Immune Response in the Presence of Preexisting Immunity

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