Before covid-19, Ebola in West Africa (2014-2016) is an opportunity to question the representations of new epidemics. Educated young Africans open to new information technologies are social markers for understanding health messages. An anthropological study conducted in 2016 in Ouagadougou on the representations of 93 young people in school shows that their main sources of information (internet, social networks, television, online press), mark their perceptions characterized by the theory of the conspiracy of « Whites » for the control of « Blacks, » questioning the health responses.
Keywords: Ebola, Bird-Flu, Covid, Burkina-Faso, Conspiracy
