The Ebola virus disease outbreak in West Africa (2013–2016) claimed over 10 000 lives in less than 18 months. Low levels of familiarity with the disease, ease of transmission, scale of infection, gruesomeness of symptoms, lack of cure and high fatality rate created a global panic. From the perspective of the social psychology of communication and content analysis, this study examines media coverage of the crisis in Africa with a view to unpacking the scientific and non-scientific information that may have framed public understanding of the disease. Findings show that accepting scientific advice was not unproblematic, because of the similarity of early symptoms with known diseases such as Lassa, dengue and malaria fevers. Cultural and religi...
CITATION: Falade, B. 2019. Leveraging media informatics for the surveillance and understanding of di...
CITATION: Preiser, W. 2014. 38 years after its discovery, Ebola virus spins out of control. SACEMA Q...
Media are an indispensable partner in health communication but, there is often concern about how the...
The Ebola virus disease outbreak in West Africa (2013–2016) claimed over 10 000 lives in less than 1...
The public health campaign against Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo faced serious chall...
The public health campaign against Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo faced serious chall...
We sought to summarize knowledge, misconceptions, beliefs, and practices about Ebola that might impe...
We sought to summarize knowledge, misconceptions, beliefs, and practices about Ebola that might impe...
Abstract Introduction The 2014 Ebola virus outbreak in parts of West Africa marked the 25th occurre...
Although Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) had already taken hundreds of lives in Liberia, Guinea, and Sierr...
Background: The largest outbreak of Ebola virus disease in history happened between 2014- 2016 in W...
The global health system is ill prepared to handle communicable health crises, much less effectively...
Aims: The West African Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak of 2014-2016 was the most disastrous EVD e...
A comprehensive, reliable public communication before, during, and after a health crisis can save li...
In the case of the 2014 Ebola outbreak in Western Africa which claimed over 11,000 lives, the virus ...
CITATION: Falade, B. 2019. Leveraging media informatics for the surveillance and understanding of di...
CITATION: Preiser, W. 2014. 38 years after its discovery, Ebola virus spins out of control. SACEMA Q...
Media are an indispensable partner in health communication but, there is often concern about how the...
The Ebola virus disease outbreak in West Africa (2013–2016) claimed over 10 000 lives in less than 1...
The public health campaign against Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo faced serious chall...
The public health campaign against Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo faced serious chall...
We sought to summarize knowledge, misconceptions, beliefs, and practices about Ebola that might impe...
We sought to summarize knowledge, misconceptions, beliefs, and practices about Ebola that might impe...
Abstract Introduction The 2014 Ebola virus outbreak in parts of West Africa marked the 25th occurre...
Although Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) had already taken hundreds of lives in Liberia, Guinea, and Sierr...
Background: The largest outbreak of Ebola virus disease in history happened between 2014- 2016 in W...
The global health system is ill prepared to handle communicable health crises, much less effectively...
Aims: The West African Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak of 2014-2016 was the most disastrous EVD e...
A comprehensive, reliable public communication before, during, and after a health crisis can save li...
In the case of the 2014 Ebola outbreak in Western Africa which claimed over 11,000 lives, the virus ...
CITATION: Falade, B. 2019. Leveraging media informatics for the surveillance and understanding of di...
CITATION: Preiser, W. 2014. 38 years after its discovery, Ebola virus spins out of control. SACEMA Q...
Media are an indispensable partner in health communication but, there is often concern about how the...