ANTC68H3 Lecture 10: Lecture 10
Document Summary
A critical epistemology of emerging infectious disease: groups of diseases are not pandemic status, ebola restricted to small part of africa, there are some diseases that result in great societal response. Rhetoric of immediacy - farmer 1999: who is being affected, what are factors that lead to these groups of diseases that lead to challenges, always tie back to bigger factors. Ebola: disease that has zoonotic origins, through interactions with wild animals, became pathogens that is transmitted from human to human, but first it was transmitted from animals to humans. If diagnoses with ebola, most likelihood you die: those survive is because their immune system able to fight it, there is no treatment. Emergence of ebola- disease visibility and social context: social/cultural factors, who is being affected, became a global fear because the severity of the symptoms. If it becomes a more transformatal form- should be concern: does not kill a lot of people but has a great societal response.
