Ebola, Food Security, and Public Surveillance
Since this blog previously remarked on how mass media uses clear double standards to judge whether a certain case is more worthy of coverage than another, the public's fear of an Ebola epidemic, despite news of optimistic recoveries and winning battles, has been continuing unabated. More and more stories of lone travelers landing in other parts of the world, bearing fevers and other, more mysterious symptoms, have only served to stoke repeated feel of crisis among the general populace. The sheer unpredictability of where the disease may land next have kept the public concerned in ways that exaggerate the lethality of the disease.