Category: Manmade Disasters

In the Digital Age, infectious disease outbreaks like Ebola ¹ are brought into our lives through our smart phones, tablets and laptops and we can easily access and quickly analyze the information we receive. As Americans get smarter and more savvy about how to sort through the kind of fear-based rhetoric that sells newspapers, we are able to better assess exactly what is going on with Ebola ^{2 3} in Africa and the U.S. and ask good questions about what we are seeing.^{4 5}