He has recently developed a research interest in understanding the securitization and structural violence of the Ebola Virus Disease in Africa.

UNESCO: Professor David J. Francis

The extinction of elephants, the threat of mad-cow disease, outbreaks of the Ebola virus, and chemicals that mimic sex hormones are all fashionable.

ECONOMIST: Plenty of gloom

Angola sealed its border with Congo to contain an outbreak of Marburg virus , an incurable Ebola-like haemorrhagic disease that has killed at least 146 people.

ECONOMIST: After Pope John Paul II

Uganda's Ministry of Health declared the outbreak in Kibaale district Saturday after getting confirmatory results from the Uganda Virus Research Institute identifying the disease as Ebola hemorrhagic fever, Sudan strain.

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