Ebola Awareness: Books/Articles/Videos

Ebola: Global Status is one in a series of GIDEON ebooks which explore all individual infectious diseases, drugs, vaccines, outbreaks, surveys and pathogens in every country of the world.

Focuses on the molecular properties and taxonomy of the Ebola and Marburg viruses. Looks at how the viruses evolve, replicate, spread, etc.

Sensationalized account of the emergence of Ebola. See a review from Smithsonian Magazine

Piot is an epidemiologist sent to Kinshasa, along the river Congo, to learn more about Ebola and how it travels from person to person.

In 2014, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea suffered the worst epidemic of Ebola in history. The brutal virus spread rapidly through a clinical desert where basic health-care facilities were few and far between. Causing severe loss of life and economic disruption, the Ebola crisis was a major tragedy of modern medicine. But why did it happen, and what can we learn from it?

This edited volume is directed at experts in international law, practitioners in international institutions, and other experts who would like to familiarize themselves with the legal framework of infectious disease governance.

This movie starring Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo and Morgan Freeman poses a drastic measure to counteract a virus originally discovered in Africa which has resurfaced in the United States .