On October 9, 2014, a man walking his dog in East Longmeadow, Massachusetts found an altar containing an image of Ebola-chan. In September 2014, 4chan administrators began removing posts of Ebola-chan from the site. This would expand into users claiming that Ebola doctors were part of the cult and intentionally spreading the illness. Other threads would promote the conspiracy theory that Ebola was CIA-made and being intentionally spread by the United States. While the initial post was mostly seen as an attempt at ' trolling', many Nigerian users of the site were later convinced that American and European users were performing “magical rituals in order to spread the disease and kill people' and regarded Ebola-chan as a plague goddess. These images would include makeshift shrines and allusions to death cults, blood sacrifices, and demon worship. Users on 4chan began uploading the meme to Nairaland, in an effort to 'increase tensions between blacks and whites in Africa' by convincing people in West Africa that Ebola was created by the white race, taking advantage of African beliefs in voodoo. The image was accompanied with a tongue-in-cheek message that would threaten users with death and pain if they did not reply with the phrase 'I Love You Ebola-chan.” The image began appearing on Reddit, Facebook, and DeviantArt, with users often making comments such as “GOOD LUCK EBOLA-CHAN!” and “HAIL BLOOD-GODDESS! HAIL EBOLA-CHAN!”, accompanied with racially charged messages. On August 7, 2014, Ebola-chan was posted to the /pol/ thread on 4chan.

The first known image of the 'Ebola-chan' meme was originally published on Pixiv on August 4, 2014. The epidemic would go on to receive widespread, world-wide media coverage, with increased public awareness and concern over the virus and its transmission. Subsequently, the outbreak spread to the neighbouring countries of Liberia and Sierra Leone, with addition outbreaks in Nigeria and Mali. The first cases of the outbreak were recorded in Guinea in December 2013. In 2014, ebola virus epidemic broke out in West Africa. Main article: Western African Ebola virus epidemic

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