Displaced by Disease: 5 Displacement Patterns Emerging from the Ebola Epidemic

Author(s)
Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre
Publication language
English
Pages
2pp
Date published
20 Nov 2014
Publisher
IDMC
Type
Blogs
Keywords
Disasters, Epidemics & pandemics, Urban
Countries
Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone
Organisations
Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)
Link
http://internal-displacement.org/blog/2014/displaced-by-disease-5-displacement-p…

When a whole town was displaced in the south of Guinea during the Ebola crisis, the link between disease and displacement began to emerge. With IDMC monitoring the crisis across the three countries most affected since the outbreak took place, we have identified five key displacement trends emerging.