Although Ebola was already discovered in 1976, it didn’t become well known until the epidemic in Ivory Coast and Congo (then still called Zaire) in 1995. In the same year, the Hollywood movie Outbreak was released. This blockbuster about an Ebola-like virus erupting in the United States, made the western world think about the possible risk of Ebola (Moeller, 1998). Suddenly, it wasn’t an innocent African problem anymore, but a possible threat to the whole world.
In their means to get the readers attention, the media tended to make more of Ebola then it really was. So-called scientists claiming that Ebola could be handed over by just a handshake or that it might get airborne (like in the movie Outbreak) were being quoted more and more. Terms
In their means to get the readers attention, the media tended to make more of Ebola then it really was. So-called scientists claiming that Ebola could be handed over by just a handshake or that it might get airborne (like in the movie Outbreak) were being quoted more and more. Terms