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Panic, Paranoia, and Public Health — The AIDS Epidemic's Lessons for Ebola

Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: The scientific ignorance and paranoia on display in the reaction to the return of health care workers from the front lines of the Ebola fight and the fear-driven suspicion and shunning of whole classes of people echo the response to the emergence of AIDS in the 1980s.
Institution: Yale University
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2164267799
FWCI: 10.74
Cites: 3
Cited by: 96
Related to: 10