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Mass Media and the Contagion of Fear: The Case of Ebola in America

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Towers, Sherry, Afzal, Shehzad, Bernal, Gilbert, Bliss, Nadya, Brown, Shala, Espinoza, Baltazar, Jackson, Jasmine, Judson-Garcia, Julia, Khan, Maryam, Lin, Michael, Mamada, Robert, Moreno, Victor M., Nazari, Fereshteh, Okuneye, Kamaldeen, Ross, Mary L., Rodriguez, Claudia, Medlock, Jan, Ebert, David, and Castillo-Chavez, Carlos

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Background In the weeks following the first imported case of Ebola in the U. S. on September 29, 2014, coverage of the very limited outbreak dominated the news media, in a manner quite disproportionate to the actual threat to national public health; by the end of October, 2014, there were...

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Creator:

Towers, Sherry, Afzal, Shehzad, Bernal, Gilbert, Medlock, Jan, and et al.

Abstract:

Background In the weeks following the first imported case of Ebola in the U. S. on September 29, 2014, coverage of the very limited outbreak dominated the news media, in a manner quite disproportionate to the actual threat to national public health; by the end of October, 2014, there were...

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., Bernal, G., Bliss, N., Brown, S., Espinoza, B., ... & Castillo-Chavez, C. (2015). Mass media and the