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Reading Junkie retweeted
Our book Reinventing Uganda. Political Imagination and Social Change after the fall of Idi Amin, is now open access ! Feel free to read online or download it from the link below, to forward it, and to send us your feedback... books.openedition.org/africa…
Reading Junkie retweeted
“Ugandan, Swiss, Nigerian”.
The index #Ebola patient in #Nigeria has attracted unnecessary and stigmatising labels; it only fuels public anxiety, and stigma.
See the labels..
“A Ugandan-born wife of a Swiss diplomat based in Abuja”
“A Swiss national married to a diplomat”
“A Swiss citizen and the Ugandan-born wife of a Swiss diplomat”
“A Ugandan national married to a Swiss diplomat”
“A Nigerian national holidaying in Uganda”
“A Wife of a Swiss diplomat”
“A Nigerian woman on a business trip to DRC but transited through Uganda”
“A 42-year-old Ugandan woman”
Can we all just stop this? Public officials with nothing verified to communicate, can you keep off?
The precision of public information matters a lot.
The personal identity of Nigeria’s index Ebola case provides zero medical value.
In fact, potential patients will avoid testing to escape public trial.
Ultimately, we will all pay the price.
But Ebola isn't airborne
Nigeria and Kenya Ebola patients may have crossed paths at Uganda airport, officials say bbc.in/3W3ldyP
I think Uganda is being scapegoated. We have to declare ebola for the sake of public health. Do I think the borders are porous, yes. But I think we are really good at dealing with pandemics.
Life is hard over here. 😪
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Reading Junkie retweeted
This seems like a good time to tell you about how outbreak response works.
1. Declaration. There is a category of diseases that countries are mandated to tell the rest of the world about when a certain threshold of number of cases is reached. For Ebola, that is 1 case.
Reading Junkie retweeted
The same way they were undetected at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport and Mutala Mohammed International Airport. If they were served at thos sairpirts, you would claim some supremacy. Ebola is a complex virus that's not ready for these doltish questions
