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You are obviously not keeping up with the news - if you believe the CDC/WHO/Obama Admin, I would consider getting professional help.

Latest case is health care worker in Dallas, who treated Duncan and they say was wearing full protective gear - obviously not as difficult to catch as they are telling us.

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In the space between when I did my research and when I posted to Free Republic, the news reported a transmission to a healthcare worker. Ironically, this was not one of the people who had been potentially exposed due to the horrifically lax treatment of Duncan but one who wore protective gear.

Astoundingly, some people even seem to think I was arguing that ebola is harmless. I'm arguing that if ebola were the sort of killer plague from the movies, as so many people seem to think it is, the utter failures surrounding the Duncan case should have already led to a pandemic.

Let me be absolutely clear: there WILL be infected people arriving in the United States. I certainly hope that emergency responders, healthcare workers and the government have learned a lot from the colossal, absurd failures surrounding Duncan. But even if they have not, it does not follow that civilization is doomed, or that there will be an American outbreak of ebola.

And as for those who have been supposing that ebola will follow an exponential curve, here's the real curve:

Also, it should be noted that as of August, Nigeria had 20 reportedcases of ebola. They have not had a reportedsingle case since.

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More reasonably sized graphic:

Also, it should be noted that as of August, Nigeria had 20 reportedcases of ebola. They have not had a reportedsingle case since.