Don’t panic about Ebola’s spread, here’s what we can do instead

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dc.contributor.author	Hill-Cawthorne, G
dc.contributor.author	Gilbert, GL
dc.date.accessioned	2015-01-21
dc.date.available	2015-01-21
dc.date.issued	2014-09-11
dc.identifier.citation	Grant Hill-Cawthorne, Lyn Gilbert, "Don’t panic about Ebola’s spread, here’s what we can do instead ", The Conversation, 2014	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2123/12608
dc.description.abstract	News that a 25-year-old Gold Coast man is being quarantined in hospital after returning from the Democratic Republic of Congo two days ago is no reason to panic. If anything, the incident highlights the problematic nature of the international response to the current Ebola epidemic. Segments of the media have quickly highlighted the possibility the Australian man contracted Ebola virus disease during his time in Congo. The country is experiencing an outbreak of the haemorrhagic fever virus, but it’s separate to the one reported in West African nations of Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Senegal, and Nigeria. The danger of such reports is that risks can get blown out of proportion and cause the spread of misinformation.	en
dc.language.iso	en_AU	en
dc.publisher	The Conversation	en
dc.rights	Other
dc.subject	ebola	en
dc.subject	infection control	en
dc.subject	West Africa	en
dc.title	Don’t panic about Ebola’s spread, here’s what we can do instead	en
dc.type	Article	en
usyd.faculty	Faculty of Medicine and Health, Sydney Health Ethics