Countering Fear of Ebola With Education Where West Africans Live in U.S.
Across the nation, communities with large concentrations of West African immigrants are stepping up education campaigns about Ebola that were already underway before it became known that a Liberian man in Dallas had the virus. At the same time, the immigrants say they are bracing for a public backlash now that the virus has reached the United States. And they are trying to avoid stoking unnecessary fear among immigrant families who have little chance of contracting the virus.
