Ebola Fear and Stigma - Part 1

From Commission on Smart Global Health Policy Fri Nov 14 2014, 19:08:42

J. Stephen Morrison, director of the Global Health Policy Center here at CSIS, got my attention when he described the Ebola outbreak as a two-front war: a public health battle in plague-like conditions in West Africa, one, and a communications battle against fear and overreaction in the United States, two. Government officials, wrote Dr. Morrison, "failed to appreciate just how swiftly a small number of Ebola cases in Dallas could ignite fear across the nation, raise the risk of panic, and begin to erode public trust."

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