African immigrants fear Ebola backlash as Dallas patient fights for life [View all]
I was afraid a reaction like this might develop.
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African immigrants fear Ebola backlash as Dallas patient fights for life
Reuters
06 Oct 2014
Some African immigrants in Dallas are worried that the case of a Liberian man who is sick with the Ebola virus in a city hospital is generating ill-feeling, including some taunts and finger-pointing, toward the wider community.
“Some people around here see us as bringing the disease and that’s just not right,” said a Liberian who asked to be called Sekou...
...Some immigrants from Somalia wearing traditional clothing that includes headscarves for women, say they have seen fingers pointed their way on the neighborhood streets.
“People are looking at us in a bad way. We didn’t have anything to do with this. Somalia does not have Ebola. It is on the other side of Africa,” said Shadiya Abdi, 27, an immigrant from Somalia....
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