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cord-020610-hsw7dk4d	Thys, Séverine	Contesting the (Super)Natural Origins of Ebola in Macenta, Guinea: Biomedical and Popular Approaches	2019-10-12		.txt	text/plain	9756	460	48	Combined with a divergent political practice and lived experiences of the state, especially between Sierra Leone and Guinea, the working hypothesis drawn from my ethnographic observations in Macenta and related literature review is that part of the continuing episodes of hostility and social resistance manifested by Guinean communities regarding the adoption of the proposed control measures against the scourge of Ebola has its origins in the divergence between explanatory systems of the disease; on the one hand, biomedical explanatory systems, and, on the other hand, popular explanatory systems. By framing 'bushmeat' hunting, as well as local burials, as the main persisting cultural practices among the 'forest people' to explain (or to justify) the maintenance of the EVD transmission during the West African epidemic, the notion of culture that fuelled sensational news coverage has strongly stigmatised this 'patient zero' community both globally and within Guinea, and has been employed to obscure the actual, political, economic and political-economic drivers of infectious disease patterns.	./cache/cord-020610-hsw7dk4d.txt	./txt/cord-020610-hsw7dk4d.txt