Overcome epidemics
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Caregivers participating in a rapid screening campaign in a Rio favela on October 8, 2020 (illustrative image).
AP Photo / Silvia Izquierdo
By: Caroline Paré Follow
50 min
The plague, cholera, the Spanish flu, Ebola… Dreadful dangers, invisible and sometimes fatal, epidemics can threaten our health and beyond, our daily life.
The Covid-19 is no exception to the rule and the current crisis, beyond its health and economic aspects, is also disrupting our relationship with information.
In addition to the Pandemic, there is the very wide distribution of fake news (or “infodemic”).
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Pr Didier Pittet,
head of the infection prevention and control service at the
University Hospitals of Geneva (HUG)
and president of the national independent mission to assess the management of the epidemic in France and co-author, with Thierry Crouzet , from the book
Vaincre les epidémies, from awareness to actions that save
, published by Hugo Doc
Pr Renaud Piarroux,
head of the parasitology / mycology department at
the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital
in Paris and professor at
Sorbonne University
, author of
The wave - The epidemic seen from the field
, CNRS éditions
Fanta Camara,
former patient, recovered from Ebola.
She works in a research project as a reception agent for
the NGO Alima
in Conakry, Guinea.
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