Emmanuelle Roth: Echoes of Ebola. Bats, Virus Hunters, and Epidemic Origins in Guinea

Datum
06. Novem­ber 2024 

LSHTM Med­ical Anthro­pol­o­gy Seminar

Emmanuelle Roth: „Echoes of Ebo­la: Bats, Virus Hunters, and Epi­dem­ic Ori­gins in Guinea”
Novem­ber sem­i­nar in the LSHTM Med­ical Anthro­pol­o­gy Series
6th Novem­ber, 4–5.15pm gmt

Dr Emmanuelle Roth, Research Fel­low in the Rachel Car­son Cen­ter for Envi­ron­ment and Soci­ety at the Lud­wig-Max­i­m­il­ians-Uni­ver­sität München

This pre­sen­ta­tion explores the geopol­i­tics, econ­o­my, and infra­struc­ture of pan­dem­ic antic­i­pa­tion in a sto­ry of virus hunters, the bats they col­lect­ed, and the unsta­ble truths that echoed through and around the search for the elu­sive ori­gins of Ebo­la in the wake of the disease’s dead­liest epi­dem­ic in West Africa.

This webi­nar is online only, fol­low the link here