From the dragon’s perspective: an initial report on China’s response to the unfolding Ebola epidemic

By Emilio Dirlikov and Qiuyu Jiang, published in Somatosphere’s Ebola fieldnote, October 29, 2014.

On a steamy mid-August afternoon, Mariatu Kargbo, a Sierra Leonian expat residing in Beijing, stood at the front of a packed hotel ballroom. As reported by Xinhua News (新华网), Kargbo addressed the crowd, saying:

I know everyone has come because they would like to support us, but I really didn’t know that today so many people would come, thank you everyone! What we’ve done today is to say to Ebola ‘You cannot go forward, you need to stop’!

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