Ebola... Over or Under Exaggerated?
In Karin Klein's opinion-based article, Is the flu really more dangerous to Americans than Ebola? It depends, she gives her opinion that the widespread epidemic of the ebola virus may be over-exaggerated. She gives statistics that show that America currently faces over 3,000 deaths per year due to the much more common flu, while there have been only a handful of reports of Ebola in the U.S. In contrast, however, the Associated Press of the L.A. Times writes the article, Fifth doctor dies of Ebola in Sierra Leone, to inform readers on the recent death of an Ebola-diagnosed doctor in Sierra Leone. The severity of Ebola is expressed in this article through visual rhetoric, by including images of Africans being sprayed by a disinfectant spray. Also, they are including that Ebola has not only killed many, but has set back political stability and economic recovery in the afflicted countries of Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia.
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