Ebola

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• 12-14-14
  

  The Making of an AIDS Scapegoat -- And Why We Keep Doing It

  by Rod Tanchanco

  He was called Patient Zero. It was a publisher’s ploy.

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• SOURCE: Salon
  11-3-14
  

  America’s conspiracy mania: Why Ebola and 9/11 truthers reflect a tortured history

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  From 9/11 to McCarthyism, we have a long history of conspiracy theories -- and government acts have encouraged them.

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• SOURCE: The Forward Association
  10-30-14
  

  Jewish History's Lesson for Handling Ebola

  by Joshua Teplitsky

  In 1712 Plague Outbreak, Jews Were Placed in Quarantine

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• SOURCE: Slate
  10-26-14
  

  In embracing an Ebola victim, Barack Obama succeeded where Ronald Reagan failed

  by Laura Helmuth

  "The hateful, homophobic, racist response to the AIDS crisis is one of the most shameful episodes in recent American history."

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• SOURCE: National Geographic
  10-25-14
  

  This is how badly infectious epidemics have devastated humans in history (graphic)

  by National Geographic Staff

  The worst become pandemics, sweeping across continents and killing as many as tens of millions of people.

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• 10-27-14
  

  Fear of illnesses from abroad is nothing new

  by HNN Staff

  The word quarantine -- French for forty days -- dates to the middle ages.

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• 10-28-14
  

  This Is Where Ebola First Struck in 1976 and What Happened

  by Rod Tanchanco MD

  It's a sad tale and it's being repeated.

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• The Historical Roots of the Ebola Scare in the United States

  by Sheldon M. Stern

  Anyone familiar with America’s racial past will detect some disturbing parallels in these irrational if not hysterical fears.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  10-20-14
  

  No, a Surgeon General Couldn't Stop Ebola

  by Mike Stobbe

  The nation's top doctor has been a powerless figurehead for a long time.

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• 10-22-14
  

  Ebola and ISIS: The Twin Plagues of Our Time

  by Timothy R. Furnish

  Five striking similarities between the Ebola epidemic and Islamic terrorism present themselves.

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• SOURCE: Christian Science Monitor
  10-22-14
  

  Ebola and the politics of fear

  From Johnson's 'Daisy Girl' ad to Reagan's Soviet bear, politicians have been trying to scare voters to the polls for decades. Now, Ebola is handing candidates an arresting talking point.

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  10-21-14
  

  Will the War on Terror Be the Template for the Ebola Crisis?

  by Karen J. Greenberg

  Fighting the Last War

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• SOURCE: Boston Globe
  10-17-14
  

  How an African slave helped Boston fight smallpox

  by Ted Widmer

  Centuries before Ebola, Cotton Mather faced down another global epidemic with a health tactic from abroad.

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• SOURCE: Huff Post
  10-17-14
  

  Ebola, HIV, and the Politics of Contagion: What gay history teaches us

  by Jim Downs

  The threat of Ebola provides a peek into the politics of contagion.

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• SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle
  10-17-14
  

  Fear of immigrants spreading disease is nothing new

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  "But a blanket prohibition on travel from West Africa? That’s prejudice, plain and simple."

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• 9-26-14
  

  Why Does Africa Get Hit with So Many Disasters Like Ebola?

  by Joseph Yannielli

  Looking at the litany of disaster that is recent West African history - slavery, colonialism, genocide, civil war, and now an ebola epidemic of unprecedented scope and voracity - it is tempting to conclude that this is the single unluckiest region on the surface of the planet.

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• 9-7-14
  

  The Sad Reason We Don't Know More About Ebola

  by Pearl Duncan

  It’s been said that one of the reasons the Ebola virus went out of control, undetected, is because so little attention is paid to Africa. Not only is little attention paid to issues in current Africa, but very little is known about African history.

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• 8-15-14
  

  We Can't Give in to Ebola Scaremongering

  by Alison Bateman-House

  It is too easy to think that keeping the sick out of the nation will protect America’s health.

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• SOURCE: NBC News
  8-1-14
  

  Pandemic 101: The Most Infectious Plagues in History (Video)

  A quick tour through history of the worst of the worst pandemics.