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Ebola: Fact-checking myths that kill

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Wednesday, April 01, 2015
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Julian Rademeyer
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.