Why do some Africans doubt Ebola is real?

[Quantess]

Honestly puzzled.

[In_The_Wind]

1. This is news to me.

How can anyone doubt that it's real?

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[AngryAmish]

2. Have you seen it?

[In_The_Wind]

3. No. Have you?

[oberliner]

4. Skeptics In Sierra Leone Doubt Ebola Virus Exists

From NPR:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/goatsandsoda/2014/08/06/338234063/skeptics-in-sierra-leone-doubt-ebola-virus-exists

[In_The_Wind]

7. Thanks for the link.

[Spider Jerusalem]

5. Why do some Americans doubt that HIV causes AIDS?

Why do some Americans think vaccines cause autism?

People are stupid and ignorant everywhere, sadly.

[WinkyDink]

14. Not quite the same as denying the very existence of a disease.

[Happyhippychick]

8. It's hard to understand when you are a first world person with access to the world (literally)

at your fingertips. Most of the world doesn't have the informational resources we do, they have to rely on what others tell them.

[GeorgeGist]

9. CT are everywhere, my Dear.

CIA, USAID, et al. have fucked up too often.

[dembotoz]

10. they watch fox news-africa

would be the same over here

misunderstanding
mis information
ignorance spreading ignorance

[etherealtruth]

11. Using Sierra Leone as an example

Country info
http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/sierraleone_statistics.html

There are places in the world that do not share the same advantages many of us in the developed world have

[LloydS of New London]

12. If they've seen our climate change deniers,

then I can't say I blame them.

[drray23]

13. information access

They do not have access to information. Most of these countries have an abysmal education system leaving their population illiterate. Compound that with deficient governments and the historical perpective of having been exploited by europeans during the colonial era and its understandable they do not trust the white people flying in and setting up centers to treat them.