"Ebola virus virion" by CDC/Cynthia Goldsmith - Public Health Image Library World War Z is coming! Or at least you would think so given the media sensationalism surrounding Ebola. But as time has shown us hysteria of Ebola is far more infectious than the virus itself. Ebola, though fatal, has low infectivity, has very limited to no airborne transmission, and Ebola infections are acute, or short-lived. Given these facts I would have expected the media to focus on the few populations in Western Africa actually at risk but that was far from what happened. What I find more interesting is how, since the midterm elections, the language surrounding Ebola has changed to a less terrifying tone. The...
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