Why is everyone so concerned with the Ebola virus?

It's partly because every time the CDC tells us the Ebola problem is under control, someone else contracts it and exposes a bunch of other people. The CDC apparently is more concerned with preventing panic than preventing a pandemic.

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My understanding is that Ebola has a very high death rate for those who catch it. Although people are working on it (Zmapp), there is no cure. Most people don't survive the virus (about 70% die) or about 7 in 10. The only way to stop it from spreading is to quarantine those who are exposed. It is a very sad situation.

F-U I live 1 and a half hours away from GROUND-ZERO. You Sir may kiss my fat-***. IN MY OPINION YOU ARE A CURSE UPOU SOCIETY. MY president has cursed us on the back 9 ( a golf Euphesinisium) That Dick of a President is ABSENT on domestic affairs unless it involves his boot either increasing the pressure upon our throat or decreasing the pressure upon our throat. if I haven't said that our President is ineffectual in this soon to be crisis, let me say it now ...this man is worthless.

Because the medical field can't stop it. It is here now and it is going to spread just like the flu.

Go then I'll go get my AIDS shot. 6 dead and over 600 hospitalized so far from a "mystery respiratory disease" coming from unaccompanied Latin American children (CDC REPORT August 2013) that is not being "handled". We're "concerned" because we don't want it here... If this disease ends up in Latin America, what do you think will happen then? It will walk across our border undetected and among us. Anf THAT is how epidemics start... "don't panic" and "trust your government"... listen to these idiots closely: "stopping sick people from flying will not keep the disease from here" wtf?

I don't think a lot of people are concerned. People trust their president, and the head of the CDC.

because it is much worse than any other virus ever discovered, previously it only affected isolated villages in remote african jungle , it has never occurred in heavily populated urban environments before , go watch I am legend and you will get a feel for how it spreads and Outbreak for its difficulties, in that movie the motaba virus was based on ebola and hemorrhagic fever

They're not doing that this time. They're just isolated infected or potentially infected people. Makes you wonder why aren't the killing the virus? They had a vaccine but it disappeared?

Because they don't want Republicans sticking poles up their anus