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PARASITES & VECTORS
Volume 6, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-6-94
Keywords
Social Media; Facebook; YouTube; Syrian Arab Republic; Cutaneous leishmaniasis; Leishmania tropica complex; Arab Spring; Revolution; Deir Ezzor
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Social media introduce pivotal changes to communication between individuals, organizations and communities. A clear example of the power of social media is the spread of the revolutionary outbreaks in the Arabic countries during 2011, where people used Facebook, YouTube and Skype to communicate, organise meetings and protest actions. Here I report how Doctor-Activists use these social media as an alarm system for 'war disease' outbreaks in the Syrian Spring. Social media are used as an alarm system to attract the attention of international organizations, which should assume their responsibilities and play their part in controlling the outbreak of such war diseases.
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