Mass Media and the Contagion of Fear: The Case of Ebola in America.

Mass Media and the Contagion of Fear: The Case of Ebola in America.

In the weeks following the first imported case of Ebola in the U. S. on September 29, 2014, coverage of the very limited outbreak dominated the news media, in a manner quite disproportionate to the actual threat to national public health; by the end of October, 2014, there were only four laboratory...

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Main Authors: Sherry Towers, Shehzad Afzal, Gilbert Bernal, Nadya Bliss, Shala Brown, Baltazar Espinoza, Jasmine Jackson, Julia Judson-Garcia, Maryam Khan, Michael Lin, Robert Mamada, Victor M Moreno, Fereshteh Nazari, Kamaldeen Okuneye, Mary L Ross, Claudia Rodriguez, Jan Medlock, David Ebert, Carlos Castillo-Chavez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4465830?pdf=render

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