What a lot of people don’t realize is that an outbreak has the panic factor to consider. The Spanish Flu had a fatality rate of approximately 2.7 percent. But many more people died in addition to the fear and panic that someone they know possibly could be the unfortunate one who died. Given the amount of panic and chaos many of these African nations have, I wouldn’t be surprised if it becomes comparable to Ebola by adding on the panic of many people in the country doing irrational actions out of fear that someone they know or even themselves gets the unlucky death draw.
It seems as if part of the issue in these African nations has been the population not taking the disease seriously enough to alter their behavior.