“Between 1976 and 2013, the virus caused 1,388 cases of Ebola haemorrhagic fever in the DRC and the neighbouring republics of Gabon and Congo-Brazzaville, killing 1,098 people, a 79% fatality rate.”
These hard numbers indicate to me that this is just the latest “diversion-from-the-Bolshevik-revolution-in-the-US” news story, simply a sensationalized distraction. Chicago could lose that number of people in a couple of months, and these were spread over almost 40 years.
...but more than 700 have died in the past five months. That is concerning. Especially when they are airlifting victims to Atlanta.