Mass media and the contagion of fear: The case of Ebola in America

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

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

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DYNAMICS; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EPIDEMIC; FEAR; HUMAN; INTERNET; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MASS MEDIUM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PANIC; PUBLIC HEALTH; TELEVISION; UNITED STATES; VIDEORECORDING; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; SOCIAL MEDIA;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEAR; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MASS MEDIA; SOCIAL MEDIA;

EID: 84936088628     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0129179     Document Type: Article

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