"We are survivors and not a virus:" Content analysis of media reporting on Ebola survivors in Liberia

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2017, Pages

  Mayrhuber, Elisabeth Anne Sophie ^a   Niederkrotenthaler, Thomas ^a   Kutalek, Ruth ^a  

^a Medical University of Vienna and Wiener Werkstaette for Suicide Research   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLAVIRUS; HUMAN; LIBERIA; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLICATION; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; SOCIAL STIGMA; SOCIOECONOMICS; SURVIVOR; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; MASS MEDIUM; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

EPIDEMICS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; LIBERIA; MASS MEDIA; SOCIAL STIGMA; SOCIOLOGICAL FACTORS; SURVIVORS;

EID: 85028775432     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0005845     Document Type: Article

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