Are Americans overreacting to Ebola?

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Are Americans overreacting to Ebola?

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  1. truebluefan

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    No one is debating that the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa is an epidemic. But some health experts – and even President Barack Obama – say that what's happening here in the United States is unnecessary paranoia.

    "We're a nation of more than 300 million people," said the president in his weekly radio address. "To date, we've seen three cases of Ebola diagnosed here."

    CNN commentator Mel Robbins called it "Fear-bola."

    "The fear is out of hand," said Robbins. "The coverage that we have is very warranted, but put it in perspective, folks. If you're scared about Ebola, you'd better go get a flu shot, for crying out loud."

    Some of the recent ways communities have reacted to Ebola fears include the following:

    • In Washington D.C. Thursday, a hazmat team responded when a woman got off a bus and vomited. The woman was put into isolation. She did not have Ebola.
    • Navarro College, about 60 miles from Dallas, sent rejection letters to some applicants from Nigeria because the country had a few Ebola cases.
    • The Dallas healthcare worker who handled a specimen of Thomas Duncan, the patient who died from Ebola, voluntarily put herself in isolation aboard a cruise ship. She was cleared of Ebola, but some Oklahoma students and faculty who were on the same ship have been asked not to come to school.
    • An elementary school teacher in Maine was put on leave for 21 days simply because she attended an education conference in Dallas, the city where Duncan died.

    Read more http://www.cbs46.com/story/26830708/are-americans-reacting-to-ebola
     
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    Yes. Ebola does not survive in our climate and relies on the human body to do so.

    As long as the people who do have ebola are taken care of properly, we have no reason to worry.
     

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