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The Ebola train is a-movin on, folks[/quote]

Over 2400 have died in Liberia, probably twice that.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/19/ebola-liberia-death-toll-data-sorious-samura

“People are dying in greater numbers than we know, according to MSF [Médecins sans Frontières] and WHO officials. Certain departments are refusing to give them the figures – because the lower it is, the more peace of mind they can give people. The truth is that it is still not under control.”

Ebola is rising sharply in western Sierra Leone.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/21/ebola-cases-sierra-leone-increasing-above-20-deaths-day

The number of people infected with Ebola in western Sierra Leone is increasing to more than 20 deaths daily, according to government estimates.

Forty-nine new cases of were confirmed on Monday in two Ebola zones in and around the capital Freetown, the National Ebola Response Center reported on Tuesday. There are 851 total confirmed cases in the two zones, called Western Area Urban and Western Area Rural, the centre said. The Ebola outbreak previously primarily affected eastern Sierra Leone.[/quote]

What about new cases in America?

That's what I thought.[/quote]
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Not the PP who posted the data about WA, but permit me to (a) care about what goes on outside America and (b) be concerned what an outbreak of a deadly disease that shows no sign of dying out in West Africa spreading all over the world, even to *gasp* American shores. I don't think we'll have an insane ebola epidemic here, but there is no way we will not see more cases outside of West Africa, unless this is stopped.[/quote]

Yes - the people in western Africa are human too; the PP's dismissive post is increadibly narrow-minded.

I'm amazed at how insensitive, even rude such posters can be (and there appear to be several of them).  They seem totally indifferent to human suffering simply because its unlikely to affect them.  Such cultural insensitivity towards fellow humans suffering through this calamity is just apalling.  The world does not end at the U.S. border, but to read some of these posts, some people are too selfish and self-centered to understand that.  They would rather discuss which new SUV to buy.  Pathetic. [/quote]

Not being dismissive at all to human suffering. I'm being dismissive to the doomsday preppers. We are not going to see widespread Ebola in the U.S.[/quote]

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