It demonstrates how the construction of the Ebola virus and its victims as "zombies"-not properly live nor properly dead, spectacularly supernatural yet materially impactful has worked to displace culpability, suppress theories of iatrogenic contagion, and ultimately, justify modes of disease surveillance that seek to cordon off non-Western bodies.

Ebola epidemiology enabled dramatic scenarios in the book The Hot Zone and the movie Outbreak (directed by Wolfgang Petersen, 1995). The zombie apocalypse draws from such scenarios, yet simultaneously eclipses them all in its scale.

Aug 15, 2014 · Ebola isn't a "zombie virus." It will not turn you into a member of the living dead. That's the message delivered by Chinese state media, in response to the flurry of rumors, online and...

Jan 24, 2019 · And it posed a mystery: Where did the virus, called Ebola Zaire, come from? Now, scientists may have an answer. Near the mouth of an abandoned mineshaft in Liberia, they caught a bat that was likely infected with Ebola Zaire.

Nov 3, 2016 · They show that some 3 months after the outbreak took off and became a full-blown epidemic, the virus underwent a mutation that made it better suited for humans than for its presumed natural host, a fruit bat species.

Apr 20, 2023 · Ebola virus disease (EVD or Ebola) is a rare but severe illness in humans. It is often fatal. People get infected with Ebola by touching: infected animals when preparing, cooking or eating them ; body fluids of an infected person such as saliva, urine, faeces or semen

Dec 16, 2015 · In the new article, Smith lays out a history of zombies and zombie pathogens, from the Solanum virus in the book and film "World War Z," to the modified Ebola virus that swept the United Kingdom...

Sep 14, 2018 · Nevertheless, the concrete procedures to contain the virus reduced the people quarantined to dangerous bodies. The emergency therefore created zombies, haunting figures trapped between life and death.

Aug 7, 2019 · During the Ebola epidemic that ravaged West Africa in 2014 and 2015, that form of Ebola showed possible signs of evolving. Virologists are still trying to determine the significance of what...

Mar 24, 2020 · A renowned Virologist, Prof. Oyewale Tomori, on Tuesday said Ebola virus was more severe and dreadful compared to Coronavirus disease