@article{fdi:010087059,
  title = {{D}isease {X} and {A}frica : how a scientific metaphor entered popular imaginaries of the online public during the {COVID}-19 pandemic},
  author = {{S}ams, {K}. and {G}rant, {C}. and {D}esclaux, {A}lice and {S}ow, {K}.},
  editor = {},
  language = {{ENG}},
  abstract = {{I}n 2018, the {W}orld {H}ealth {O}rganization ({WHO}) announced the addition of {D}isease {X}, a hypothetical infectious threat, to its blueprint list of priority diseases. {I}n the construction of discourse that circulated following this announcement, conceptions of {D}isease {X} intersected with representations of {A}frica. {I}n our article, we share a broad strokes analysis of internet narratives about {D}isease {X} and {A}frica in the six months before the onset of the {COVID}-19 pandemic ({J}uly-{D}ecember 2019) and during its first six months ({J}anuary-{J}une 2020). {O}ur analysis focuses on how the scientific concept of {D}isease {X} was applied by ?non-experts' to make meaning from risk, uncertainty, and response. {T}hese non-experts drew in parallel upon more general representations of power, fear, and danger. {T}his research is particularly relevant at the time of writing, as online narratives about {COVID}-19 vaccination are shaping vaccine anxiety throughout the world by drawing upon similar conceptions of agency and inequality. {B}ecause {D}isease {X} in {A}frica still looms as a perceived future threat, considering the narratives presented in this paper can provide insight into how people create meaning when faced with a scientific concept, a global health crisis, and the idea that there are other crises yet to come.},
  keywords = {{AFRIQUE}},
  booktitle = {},
  journal = {{M}edecine {A}nthropology {T}heory},
  volume = {9},
  numero = {2},
  pages = {en ligne [28 ]},
  ISSN = {2405-691{X}},
  year = {2022},
  DOI = {10.17157/mat.9.2.5611},
  URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010087059},
}