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cord-024570-jfm4yvef	Moodley, Prevan	A discourse analysis of Ebola in South African newspapers (2014–2015)	2019-08-13		.txt	text/plain	5324	283	50	The 2014 Ebola outbreak in three African states transformed the virus into a social reality in which media representations contributed to globalised hysteria and had rhetorical effects. This study investigated representations of the Ebola virus/disease in South African news reports (March 2014–June 2015). To demonstrate this, Mondragon, de Montes and Valencia (2017) showed that laypersons' social representations depicted Ebola as being definitively African (particularly in being linked to poverty), along with portrayals of dread about entering the affected countries and 'backward' Africa lacking competence to manage the disease. In this article, we therefore aim to illustrate how fear was the effect of particular representations that emanate from cultural and metaphorical content in news reports in the 2014 Ebola epidemic. The threat to humanity discourse found in the current study is typical of media representations of Ebola outbreaks that occurred until 2001 (Weldon, 2001b) .	./cache/cord-024570-jfm4yvef.txt	./txt/cord-024570-jfm4yvef.txt