The deadliest Ebola outbreak in history is going on right now, and the efforts to contain it will be underway for quite some time. If you want to stay up-to-date, this Twitter list is a great place to start for English-language news, analysis, and first-person reports.
29 Twitter accounts you should follow to understand the Ebola outbreak
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Reports from West Africa
1) Umaru Fofana
Sierra Leonean journalist, writing for BBC & Reuters
Of all of #SierraLeone's 14 districts only Koinadugu is so far without a confirmed #Ebola case or death. The capital #Freetown has 11.
— Umaru Fofana (@UmaruFofana) August 10, 2014 2) Bate Felix Tabi Tabe
Correspondent for Reuters
Returning U.S. missionaries to be quarantined because of #Ebola http://t.co/p8lyyPQSmA
— Bate Felix Tabi Tabe (@BateFelix) August 10, 2014 3) Abdul Tejan-Cole
Ex ACC Commissioner Sierra Leone, in Senegal
Despite #Ebola, #Liberia offers 4 offshore oil exploration blocks http://t.co/tPpddXZIW6
— Abdul Tejan-Cole (@atejancole) August 11, 2014 4) David McKenzie
CNN reporter, in West Africa
Reporting trip prep pic.twitter.com/i0t54LEJCq
— David McKenzie (@McKenzieCNN) August 2, 2014 5) Clair MacDougall
Reporting from Liberia for various news outlets
A woman sells "Ebola buckets" in downtown Monrovia. Sales have spiked since the government announced… http://t.co/VIrCFJj5DM
— Clair MacDougall (@ClairMacD) July 31, 2014 6) Ben Solomon
Video Journalist for The New York Times, reporting from Sierra Leone
Witch doctors an important part of medicine in #SierraLeone. Main government hospital has a "traditional medicine" wing.
— Ben C. Solomon (@bcsolomon) August 5, 2014 7) Tommy Trenchard
Journalist and photographer, reporting from Sierra Leone
Latest on lax #Ebola quarantine measures in #sierraleone for @TheEconomist.http://t.co/CvzYzeKHT1 Pics @nprnews http://t.co/giZPmwE5bS
— Tommy Trenchard (@TommyTrenchard) August 5, 2014 8) Jason Beaubien
NPR reporter, in Sierra Leone
Deadly #Ebola Can Be Beaten-- sometimes http://t.co/8Ld8oBwg3X from #SierraLeone the current heart of the outbreak Via @nprnews #NPR
— Jason Beaubien (@jasonbnpr) July 22, 2014 News and analysis
9) Crawford Kilian
Retiree meticulously tracking infectious disease news
Saudi Arabia testing blood samples of suspected #Ebola case http://t.co/vB3xfIW7fy
— Crawford Kilian (@Crof) August 6, 2014 10) Helen Branswell
Medical reporter for The Canadian Press.
Folks who think biotechs should release their #Ebola drugs should read paragraph 2 in this story. Cupboard isn't full http://t.co/jyORtJFBbN
— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) August 6, 2014 11) Abena Dove Osseo-Asare
Historian of medicine
Ebola impacting Study Abroad gigs in Ghana. 38 faculty and students at New England School of Medicine postpone trip http://t.co/J9rdPohymJ
— Dove (@abenadove) August 11, 2014 12) Sanjay Gupta
CNN chief medical correspondent and a staff neurosurgeon at Emory University in Atlanta, where two Americans with Ebola are being treated
Pretty simple graphic from the #CDC pic.twitter.com/WKtAmgrkS4
— Dr. Sanjay Gupta (@drsanjaygupta) August 6, 2014 13) Laurie Garrett
Senior fellow at Council on Foreign Relations, former journalist
The @WorldBank ests. $$ impact of #Ebola: "for #Guinea projects full 1% fall in GDP growth from 4.5 percent to 3.5 percent."
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) August 4, 2014 14) Susan Shepler
Professor at American University, focusing on youth and conflict in West Africa
Gender, burial practices, and Ebola in Sierra Leone https://t.co/dPgzQX5ugC
— Susan Shepler (@SusanShepler) August 10, 2014 15) Maryn McKenna
Journalist, Atlanta resident
ICYMI: the EIGHT known times that someone imported a viral hemorrhagic fever to the US … and nothing happened http://t.co/gLTRrXPJK5
— Maryn McKenna (@marynmck) August 4, 2014 16) Tara Smith
Infectious disease epidemiologist
Ethical questions raised about @CNN's Ebola coverage http://t.co/JBEFsrAfFY
— Tara C. Smith (@aetiology) August 6, 2014 17) Kim Yi Dionne
Professor of government at Smith College
Is the $200 million @WorldBank pledge for the $73 million @WHO request in fighting #Ebola enough? http://t.co/Lz4rayeO5s
— kim yi dionne (@dadakim) August 6, 2014 18) Ian Mackay
Virologist
ICYMI @ebola related maps and historic numbers. http://t.co/5GS3pKrMBh pic.twitter.com/EyKQzvM4rG
— Ian M Mackay, PhD (@MackayIM) August 6, 2014 19) Kerry Sheridan
AFP reporter
Spain to evacuate elderly priest with Ebola from Liberia @AFP http://t.co/RD7DTpuiP7
— Kerry Sheridan (@kerrsheridan) August 6, 2014 20) BBC Africa
African news from the BBC
Suspected #Ebola victim dies in Saudi Arabia-the man recently visited #Sierra Leone http://t.co/1O9NkEBX4L
— BBC Africa (@BBCAfrica) August 6, 2014 Organizations fighting Ebola
21) Doctors Without Borders (MSF) UK press team
MSF is one of the only organizations directly treating Ebola patients. This is their UK feed.
Read more about Benjamin's experience in Sierra Leone here: http://t.co/qHhMRbfa6j #Ebolapic.twitter.com/34eA9TMtMK
— MSF UK Press Office (@MSF_Press) July 31, 2014 22) MSF Picture Desk
Photos from the field, from Doctors Without Borders (MSF)
#Ebola #SierraLeone Saidu spent nearly two weeks in #MSF treatment centre. Now he is cured. Copyright @sandraqsmiley pic.twitter.com/aonKgDMrkA
— MSF PICTURE DESK (@MSF_PictureDesk) August 6, 2014 23) IFRC
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
Over 2500 #RedCross volunteers and staff working around the clock to stop #Ebola in West #Africa pic.twitter.com/NQ53BsPOUy
— Australian Red Cross (@RedCrossAU) August 5, 2014 24) WHO
The UN’s World Health Organization
Currently there is no registered medicine or vaccine against #Ebola, but there are several experimental options under development
— WHO (@WHO) August 6, 2014 25) UNICEF Liberia
Liberian outpost of the children’s welfare organization
Via @UNICEF_Liberia, 3 little girls review a UNICEF-developed poster on the "Do's & Don’ts" of #Ebola prevention pic.twitter.com/RBss0dLUHV
— UNICEF USA (@unicefusa) August 5, 2014 The American Angle
26) CDC
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
What is ZMapp & is it effective for treating #Ebola? Visit: http://t.co/2ogsPKy42z to learn diff. btwn therapies/vaccines. #EbolaOutbreak
— CDC (@CDCgov) August 6, 2014 27) Emory Healthcare
Its hospital is treating two Americans with Ebola
Emory’s Chief Nursing Exec. Susan Grant: "This is why we wanted to bring the #Ebola patients to the US..." http://t.co/3GXcHs6dWG
— Emory Healthcare (@emoryhealthcare) August 6, 2014 28) Samaritan’s Purse
Christian aid organization affiliated with the two Americans with Ebola
Good news from Amber Brantly, wife of Dr. Kent Brantly: http://t.co/xnLbLDpcPx
— Samaritan's Purse (@SamaritansPurse) August 5, 2014 29) Cameron McWhirter
Wall Street Journal reporter, in Atlanta
Second American Ebola patient arrives at hospital in Atlanta http://t.co/YcI0OHfilv via @WSJ
— Cameron McWhirter (@cammcwhirter) August 5, 2014 Want even more? Kristen Hare, from Poynter.org, has an ever-growing Twitter list of Ebola outbreak reporters. And also h/t to Kim Yi Dionne, who has a great list of Twitter and Facebook accounts.
Update: Add more Twitter accounts on August 11.
Correction: The piece originally misidentified David McKenzie’s news outlet. He’s at CNN, not the BBC.
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By Julia Belluz and Alex Ward
