Sunday, October 19, 2014

What's wrong with how the West talks about Ebola in one illustration

In West Africa, deaths from Ebola have now passed 4000, while in the US the death toll remains at one.

By Christopher Hooto

The Independent - Tuesday, October 14, 2014

The coverage of the outbreak has been largely disproportionate however, and while one death is obviously still tragic and cause for concern when there is the risk of it precipitating more, it suggests a disregard for the bleak situation in Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone and other countries.
Cartoonist André Carrilho, whose work has been published in the New York Times, Vanity Fair and more, focused on this disparity in an illustration he created back in August, which has since gone viral thanks to its moving depiction of death being ignored.

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