Issue 5 Ebola’s Ecologies »Timeline: Ebola 2014…and control measures in health facilities and communities affected.” March 31: MSF reports epidemic of “unprecedented” magnitude in Guinea; cases also reported in Liberia April 1: WHO states that outbreak…
Issue 5 Ebola’s Ecologies »Two States of Emergency: Ebola 2014…had “missed chances to prevent Ebola from spreading soon after it was first diagnosed in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea last spring, citing factors such as incompetent staff and a…
Issue 5 Ebola’s Ecologies »Frozen By the Hot Zone…as they were carrying whole blood to a waiting U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules at Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport in Dakar, Senegal. The blood was being sent to Liberia…
Issue 5 Ebola’s Ecologies »Medical Vulnerability, or Where There Is No Kit…local outbreaks, erasing them from the headlines. In others, however, disaster only grew. After initial eruption in Guinea, the patchwork, aid-based circulatory system of medical care in Liberia and Sierra…
Issue 5 Ebola’s Ecologies »Global Health Doesn’t Exist…Guinea and Liberia (including an large team from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control [CDC] Epidemiological Intelligence Service). But, experts argued, the international response did not adequately escalate in proportion…
Issue 5 Ebola’s Ecologies »Outbreak of Unknown Origin in the Tripoint Zone…outset of the Second World War, in the context of an unprecedented epidemic raging in the Guinea–Sierra Leone–Liberia tripoint zone: the exact area that was the initial focus of the…
Issue 5 Ebola’s Ecologies »An Ebola Photo Essay…in Liberia, the British in Sierra Leone, and the French in Guinea. Abdul’s complaint is different: there needs to be more of a scramble and, in a knowing historical analysis,…
Issue 5 Ebola’s Ecologies »The Disease that Emerged…after Médecins San Frontières (MSF; Doctors Without Borders) declared the epidemic in Liberia was “out of control.” Even more disconcerting, the declaration itself had only moderate impact: as an MSF…
Issue 5 Ebola’s Ecologies »Ebola, Running Ahead…MSF—de facto the only organization capable of managing viral hemorrhagic outbreaks—had expected. But when Ebola cropped up in cities—Conakry (Guinea), Monrovia (Liberia), and finally Freetown (Sierra Leone)—tracking and isolating individual…