Open AccessYoutube as a source of information on Ebola virus disease
Author(s) -
Ranjan Pathak,
Dilli Ram Poudel,
Paras Karmacharya,
Amrit Pathak,
Madan Raj Aryal,
Maryam Mahmood,
Anthony A. Donato
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
north american journal of medical sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2250-1541
pISSN - 1947-2714
DOI - 10.4103/1947-2714.161244
Subject(s) - medicine , ebola virus , outbreak , the internet , relevance (law) , family medicine , internet privacy , world wide web , computer science , pathology , political science , law
The current West Africa epidemic of Ebola virus disease (EVD), which began from Guinea in December 2013, has been the longest and deadliest Ebola outbreak to date. With the propagation of the internet, public health officials must now compete with other official and unofficial sources of information to get their message out.