Anthropologist and physician Paul Farmer wrote a book called Fevers, Feuds and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History describes the 2014 Ebola outbreaks in West Africa. The book provides an eye opening combination of facts about Ebola as well as the history of inequality in Africa that left many nations vulnerable to the spread of Ebola.
The destruction of colonialism leading to civil wars left many people in refugee camps. When Ebola broke out, Farmer described the international crisis responders' habit to focus on containment of infection instead of care for infected patients. But as Farmer points out, the mortality outcome for Americans and Europeans was very different from West Africans infected with the same strand of Ebola, all depending on what care was available. An ingrained focus on containment and a rhetoric of blame on communities who attempted caregiving for those who were sick distracted from the possibility of treatment. Hope in the book comes from West African survivors of Ebola who work to help their communities rebuild.
Farmer finishes by highlighting the disparities in cases of COVID in the United States, which has hit Black Americans, Latinx, and Indigenous Americans especially hard. Farmer describes the need for addressing and rejecting global racial inequalities, as well as compassion for all people.
-Olivia
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