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Ed. note: This post was originally published on the Community site.

We’ve all seen it by now: the electron micrograph of the Ebola virus, cryptically topping headlines from the New York Times to the Daily Mail. It is the picture of Ebola in the U.S.: small, expensive, and high-definition. This tiny, purple worm, though, is not the face of Ebola. The face of Ebola is human. It is, importantly, usually black and usually female.