A "love" epidemic an ethnography of dangerous care in Sierra Leone
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This essay is the result of my PhD research on Social Anthropology, which aimed to understand why more women, than men, died from the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone, during the the years 2014 to 2016. To that end, descending into the dail life of the Sierra-Leoneans, I observed that, despite the great spectacularization surrounding the epidemic, it is nothing more than a disease of the domestic scope, affecting many more women because they are responsible for the care work (love) in relation to
their family members and communities. Therefore, the networks of affection have become the same as the transmission of the
virus, putting women and their children at risk. To think about this complex issue, I coined the term “dangerous care”, which is something ordinary in the lives of women and girls, going beyond the extraordinary moment of the Ebola epidemic.
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