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over a BILLION people live on the continent of Africa and 500 people have died.
330 million Americans and 5000-10,000 die a year from the flu... wake me up when the ebola wipes out 10,000 plus people
This is exactly the kind of fly-by analysis that keeps the western world comfortably numb to the reality of the matter.
The people that die from the flu are usually toddlers, elderly or people with reduced immune systems. The mortality rate is usually below 0,1% while being far more contagious than Ebola (flu is in most strains airborne).
Ebola on the other hand is indiscriminate in its reaping. By the time 10K people have died from it there's such a critical mass of people that carry the virus that only a nationwide quarantine (we're talking daily curfew, suspension of business hours) would restrict a disaster.