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    • Public Health
    • Media Studies
    • Sociology

    Background:

    • The 2014-2016 Ebola epidemic in West Africa garnered significant global attention.
    • Media coverage and public health discourse significantly shaped public perception of the epidemic.
    • Understanding these narratives is crucial for analyzing disease response and its societal impact.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To examine US popular media coverage and public health discourse on the 2014-2016 Ebola epidemic.
    • To analyze how the
    • zombie
    • metaphor influenced perceptions of the virus, victims, and disease control measures.
    • To investigate the role of media in displacing culpability and justifying surveillance.

    Main Methods:

    • Content analysis of popular fictional and nonfictional accounts of the Ebola epidemic.
    • Visual analysis of photojournalistic representations of the disease.
    • Rhetorical analysis of public health surveillance project discourse concerning local populations.

    Main Results:

    • Media constructed the Ebola virus and its victims as
    • zombies
    • —neither fully alive nor dead, supernatural yet impactful.
    • This framing displaced culpability for the epidemic's spread and suppressed iatrogenic contagion theories.
    • The
    • zombie
    • narrative justified disease surveillance that isolated non-Western bodies.

    Conclusions:

    • The
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    • metaphor in media and public health discourse served to dehumanize Ebola victims and obscure systemic failures.
    • This discourse facilitated the implementation of discriminatory disease surveillance practices.
    • Critical analysis of media representations is essential for understanding the social and political dimensions of public health crises.