Ebola, Guinea, World Health Organization, Doctors Without Borders

In Sierra Leone, a burial team from the government carries the coffin of an Ebola doctor who succumbed to the virus. Funerals and other expressions of mourning are key moments for anthropologists to translate between native cultures and foreign aid effort

The Experts The Ebola Response May Need: Anthropologists

4:33pm September 28, 2014

by NPR Staff

The scientists who study humans and their cultures could help health care professionals treat people who are reasonably, desperately afraid, they argue.

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