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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 and tagged with: illustration, reception

Sophie  Kleeman's avatar image 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 existence; the Obama administration recently reminded everybody that “[America’s] structure would preclude an outbreak.” Health care workers are threatening to strike over dissatisfaction with wages; the U.S. sent 3,000 military personnel directly into the area to help combat the epidemic.

The Ebola headlines in Western media outlets, however, don’t tell that story. The Western media circus has lapped up the Ebola epidemic and paraded it around as its newest act. It’s everywhere you look — stories about “necessary” precautions, tales of children and even police cars under quarantine, fear that the disease has spread to other parts of the country. And it all has one singular focus: America and the West.

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