Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1915529-20140702204420/@comment-1496755-20141018111244

Ebola will be a lot easier to contain in western society - it is much more capable of isolating the infected subjects quickly and thus stopping the infection. This is what went wrong in Africa - they were not able to identify and isolate the infected in time, which led to unrestricted physical contacts / fluid exchange among them (and thus - an outbreak).

Like I said - you shouldn't be afraid. In fact, the common flu can be a hundred times more dangerous to you than Ebola - it spreads faster, it's airborne and harder to avoid, and the virus is more resilient. The Spanish flu pandemic (in 1918) took a lot more lives than Ebola ever did: roughly 50 - 100 million (3-5% of the world's population), whereas Ebola has only killed several thousand people.

Speaking of procrastination, I really need to do some work on the Heretic/Hexen Wiki. And I have an idea just where to start...