Journal of a Plague Year: Ebola and Daniel Defoe
This post originally appeared on the blog of the Irish Humanities Alliance
The devastating outbreak of Ebola that began a year ago has now claimed the lives of more than 10,000 people according to the World Health Organization (WHO), mainly in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea. Incidents have steadily declined, but dozens of new cases are still being reported each week. Authorities in Sierra Leone recently ordered a three-day national lockdown to prevent spread of the disease (ending 29 March) in the latest attempt to stem its progress. Nonetheless the country has declared a goal of zero infections from Ebola by April 2015.
Daniel Carey
Daniel Carey, MRIA, is Director of the Moore Institute for the Humanities and Social Studies at NUI Galway and Professor of English in the School of English and Creative Arts. He is a Vice-President of the Royal Irish Academy and a board member of the Irish Research Council. He was Chair of the Irish Humanities Alliance 2014-16.