Faranak Amidi
speaker
1,355 appearances
14 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 29 Aug
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The BBC World Service broadcasts in 45 languages around the world.
Our job here at The Fifth Floor is to bring you the best of those stories in English and also to get you closer to the extraordinary work our journalists do.
This week, the Democratic Republic of Congo's Ebola outbreak continues.
Ebola is a frightening and deadly disease, killing on average half of those infected and spreading rapidly without containment measures.
So how do BBC journalists report from the centre of an epidemic?
With me is BBC West Africa journalist Emery Makumeno, who has been reporting from Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo on the Ebola outbreak.
Moussa Sanghari, country director for Sierra Leone for BBC Media Action, who led public information campaigns in the country back in the 2014 epidemic.
Camila Mota, journalist with BBC News Brazil, who reported the country's Zika virus outbreak.
in 2015 and 2016, and Matias Zibel, producer at BBC Mundo, who reported on the recent hantavirus outbreak in Argentina.
Wow, what a team.
Welcome to The Fifth Floor.
Great to have you all experts here.
So reporting on hantavirus
an epidemic can quickly gather apocalyptic overtones.
We might hear words like ground zero, patient zero, and we usually have conspiracy theories spreading not only locally, but even globally.
So Mary, I want to hear from you because you are on the ground reporting this epidemic right now.
What are you hearing and what are you seeing?
So a lot of people listening to this program want to know that, you know, when you're in a situation like this and you have to go to the field to report, is it scary?
Is it something that you worry about your own health, Emery?
Because you're right now in it.
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