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Old Oct 16, 2014 | 6:43 pm
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Originally Posted by mridley2
People. Just calm down. Seriously????

You have a higher chance of catching the flu or pneumonia on your next flight then you do Ebola. And flu or pneumonia could easily kill you just the same. Wash your hands and go on about your lives. Geez.

And Stop watching crazy exploitative news channels. And my favorite channels are causing the same hysteria too. No network names to be mentioned.
While I agree that the odds of getting ebola on a plane in the US are very slim (I'm flying JFK to SFO tomorrow without a second thought about it), I disagree with the comparison to the flu. While the flu kills more people, its mortality rate is much lower. If you are a healthy adult you have very little chance of dying from the flu. That is not true of ebola...and that is the part that is scary.
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