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Efforts are underway to curb the outbreak. CELLOU BINANI/AFP via Getty Images

February 21, 2021

Why Ebola is back in Guinea and why the response must be different this time

Jacqueline Weyer, National Institute for Communicable Diseases

The virus is always present in nature and when circumstances allow, it may jump from one species to another.

U.S. officials risk public health by equating COVID-19 with places far from home. AP Photo/Patrick Semansky

March 25, 2020

Calling COVID‑19 a ‘Chinese virus’ is wrong and dangerous – the pandemic is global

Mari Webel, University of Pittsburgh

Emphasizing foreign origins of a disease can have racist connotations and implications for how people understand their own risk of disease.

The virus that causes COVID-19 seems able to spread to anyone, anywhere. NIAID/Flickr

February 18, 2020

Naming the new coronavirus – why taking Wuhan out of the picture matters

Mari Webel, University of Pittsburgh

While identifying a new disease by its place of origin seems intuitive, history shows that doing so can have serious consequences for the people that live there.

A health worker prepares to administer Ebola vaccination in the north-western Democratic Republic of the Congo. EPA-EFE/STR

August 7, 2019

The Uganda vaccine trial: how African researchers are tackling Ebola

Yap Boum, Mbarara University of Science and Technology

Uganda is the testing ground for a new vaccine that could work on more strains of the Ebola virus and other haemorrhagic fevers.

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