Understanding the Ebola information crisis
When the Ebola crisis hit in 2014, getting health information out to people in rural communities in West Africa was crucial to their survival.
But the infectious disease outbreak affected communities that didn’t have access to the news coverage that would keep them up-to-date about the virus – a crisis of information with a death count of over 11,000 people, says a science journalism expert based in Montreal.
“It was a huge outbreak, that basically ended up killing five times as many as any of the outbreaks did before,” said David Secko, chair of the journalism department at Concordia University.
