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FROM THE ABOVE WEBSITE:

The Ebola virus is extremely rare. Among the leading causes of death in Africa, it only accounts for a tiny fraction. People are much more likely to die from AIDS, respiratory infections, or diarrhea, as you can see.



The current outbreak involves the Zaire strain, which was discovered in 1976 — the year Ebola was first identified in what was then Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). That same year, the virus was also discovered in South Sudan.

Since 1976, there have only been about 20 known Ebola outbreaks. Until last year, the total impact of these outbreaks included 2,357 cases and 1,548 deaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. They all occurred in isolated or remote areas of Africa, and Ebola never had a chance to go very far.

And that's what makes the 2014 outbreak so remarkable: the virus has spread to five countries in Africa plus America, and has already infected more than 8,000 people. It has killed more than 4,000 people. That is more than triple the sum total of all previous outbreaks combined.

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However. They know it has the potential to kill ten times more people, then AIDS has. In a much shorter time period, as well.

If it keeps spreading in Africa, in ten months there will be over a million victims in Africa alone. If it spreads in Europe and America, the graph will look very much the same as the time/infected graphs of West Africa from patient zero to now after ten months.

Just remember that the more people that are infected, the higher the chance becomes that the virus mutates into something much much worse.

Why haven’t we ever seen Ebola spread like this before? All the other outbreaks were fairly small. However this strain seems to infect those wearing heavy protective gear. We have had 40 years to study this virus. In all that time we have either gone backwards in our knowledge of this virus, or it has mutated. If the latter is true, then everything they are telling us is wrong, and it is much worse than we imagine.

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Looking at the expense and danger of having ONE patient with ebola, stopping just ONE traveler with ebola would make travel restrictions a great success. Don’t they see that ?