Open AccessInformation Circulation in times of Ebola: Twitter and the Sexual Transmission of Ebola by Survivors
Author(s) -
Céline Morin,
Ida Bost,
Arnaud Mercier,
JeanPierre Dozon,
Laëtitia Atlani-Duault
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
plos currents
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.282
H-Index - 49
ISSN - 2157-3999
DOI - 10.1371/currents.outbreaks.4e35a9446b89c1b46f8308099840d48f
Subject(s) - mainstream , social media , sierra leone , transmission (telecommunications) , theme (computing) , representation (politics) , filter (signal processing) , medicine , sociology , politics , political science , computer science , socioeconomics , law , world wide web , telecommunications , computer vision
The 2013-2015 outbreak of Ebola was by far the largest to date, affecting Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and secondarily, Nigeria, Senegal and the United States. Such an event raises questions about the circulation of health information across social networks. This article presents an analysis of tweets concerning a specific theme: the sexual transmission of the virus by survivors, at a time when there was a great uncertainty about the duration and even the possibility of such transmission.