http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/magazine/ebola’s-other-contagious-threat-hysteria/ar-BB9hk7B
The risk of Ebola infection remains vanishingly small in this country. The virus is not airborne, not able to travel in the way that, say, measles or the SARS virus can. Close contact with a patient is required for transmission. Just one death from Ebola has occurred here, and medical care is light-years from that available in West Africa, where more than 4,400 people have died in the latest outbreak.
By contrast, in some years, the flu kills more than 30,000 people in the United States. Yet this excites little anxiety: Millions of people who could benefit from a flu shot do not get one.