Abstract
<p class="p1">When understood as an embedded practice in the Mano River Basin, the issue of mobility need not threaten Ebola Virus Disease epidemic control efforts. Rites of mobility in the Mano River Basin ensure that migrants are often enmeshed in circuits of knowledge and compliance that have important implications for epidemic control. Local hosts, with whom migrants frequently have very intimate relations, often know a lot about their migrant guests and can exercise significant influence over them. If properly engaged by public health officials, these hosts could offer significant leverage in mapping geographies of transmission as well as in promoting compliance with epidemic control measures.
Highlights
Discourses on mobility and epidemic control in the context of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in West Africa’s Mano River Basin have tended to treat mobility as a dis-embedded phenomenon shorn of the ensemble of rites and rituals in which movement is often immersed
Clamping down on mobility in the face of a serious outbreak The identity of the mysterious virus killing people in the Forest Region of Guinea was only confirmed as EVD in March 2014, three months after it claimed its first known victim in Guéckédou Prefecture (WHO, 2015a)
The disease overwhelmed healthcare services and wreaked economic damage on areas that were still recovering from the devastating Mano River Basin wars of the 1990s (UNECA, 2015a: xviii–xiv, UNECA, 2015b)
Summary
A K 2016 Rites of Mobility and Epidemic Control: Ebola Virus Disease in the Mano River Basin. Rites of Mobility and Epidemic Control: Ebola Virus Disease in the Mano River Basin
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