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The Thought Show: How is Liberia Dealing with Ebola?

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Hans Rosling

13/11/2014

How is Liberia Dealing with Ebola?

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Doctor and statistician Hans Rosling on the latest efforts on tracking Ebola

Doctor and statistician Hans Rosling on the latest efforts on tracking Ebola. Plus, comedians in India, eating chillies in Denmark and remembering the dead and why it matters.

In More or Less  
Global health expert and data visionary, Hans Rosling, talks to Tim Harford about the Ebola epidemic in Liberia. Hans has just arrived in Liberia and is working as an independent professor at the Health ministry there, as part of the team tracking and tackling Ebola. We look at the latest numbers surrounding the virus.

In Trending  
Brazil 
Earlier this week a police officer was shot dead in the Brazilian city of Belem. Within a few hours, messages supposedly from other police officers were being shared on Facebook and Twitter warning people to stay inside in certain neighbourhoods. There were posts on Facebook and Twitter. There was also an audio message being shared on Whatsapp saying that ‘police officers’ would ‘clean’ the area. Later that night, nine people were murdered. We look at the use of chatapps to spread messages to closed networks.

India
There are many countries around the world which will be familiar with a north south divide – where people in the north of country form stereotypes of the south, and vice versa. Well a group of comedians from the southern five states of India have struck a chord with their latest YouTube video, trying to knock down the stereotypes of the region. We speak to the creators about why they decided to write a song about.

Denmark
Chili Klaus, a famous comedian in Denmark, has been making videos of himself eating chilies. For his latest video, he wanted to raise the profile of the Danish National Chamber Orchestra, which is facing closure. He challenged them to performing a piece, after eating a chili. We thought someone on the Trending team should take that challenge. Listen to the programme to find out how India Rakusen fares.

In The Why Factor  
How we remember the dead, and why does it matter? Mike Williams starts with the promise of so many nations never to forget the death and suffering of the World War One, to explore how the dead have been remembered around the world and through the ages.

(Photo: Hans Rosling at the University Of Oxford and its Smith School Of Enterprise And Environment host ReSource 2012. Credit: Matthew Lloyd/Stringer/Getty)

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