Ebola: Fact-checking myths that kill
In Liberia, villagers claimed that Ebola was ¿only a rumor¿ and a crowd, angered at the sudden quarantine of patients, stormed a clinic to release them, shouting, ¿There is no Ebola¿. In Nigeria, a prominent professor of ophthalmology claimed that drinking a concoction made from a plant popularly known as ewedu can help prevent and even cure Ebola. Throughout the continent, fear about Ebola has sometimes outpaced the truth. Julian Rademeyer, the editor of the fact-checking site Africa Check, will discuss how the falsehoods have spread and how fact-checkers have worked to debunk them. Wednesday, April 1, 6 p.m.-7:30 p.m., Sanford 03.
Type: AFRICA FOCUS, HUMAN RIGHTS, LECTURE/TALK, CONFERENCE/SYMPOSIUM, RESEARCH, SOCIAL, INFORMATION SESSION, and INTERNATIONAL
Contact: Professor Bill Adair