The effects of watching too many movies. I guess they are more scared of the "how you will die". Bleeding from allover your body is not interesting at all.

What is more impressive is how the mayors are on top of things. Informing the public that a neighbor has been diagnosed and urging them not to panic

Did you know that malaria kills over 780,000 people each year, and is worse than Ebola?

Quote
"One problem is that the early symptoms of
Ebola and malaria can be similar, But at the moment when people have fevers, they are often afraid to go to healthcare facilities because they want to avoid being held in the Ebola treatment centres.
"And there's a lack of trust and confidence in
health workers. There's still a feeling it's them
who are bringing the virus to people."
sisemi kitu mimi

While not as many as Malaria's, Ebola gives you suitable, relevant and multiple choices to opt for as well:
a) Don't get in contact with fluids of infected persons
b) if you do get symptomatic get yourself into a health facility ASAP
c) Kunywa ORS and antibiotics as you harisha and tapika

really? many children under 5 are dying and they don't 'want' to die. the 7 Jumbo jet's analogy shows that this is not the case. The thing about Ebola is that it has scared you and other people sh*tless to a point where it's like nothing else exists - it's a deer in headlights situation for most people. Everyone tends to forget that for each of those 120 people dying daily from Ebola I know that there are possibly 120 people or more dying from Malaria.

yes @alph is right... it's not WHAT but 'WHO'.... my fellow Africans.. don't behave like Americans.... you are not Americans... you have different set of diseases that kill you only and kills you in large numbers (in addition to ebola) and the only reason we are seeing all this noise making is because

Ebola is in it's infancy? I don't think so! I think Ebola, HIV and other Zoonotic diseases have always been with us - the only thing is that people now travel more. ebola may be responsible for clearing and forwarding of entire villages in the equatorial forests for millenia - the reason we don't know about it is because no one survived. I suspect there are diseases lurking in the Amazon that have do the same to the inhabitants. If an entire village was swept off the face of the earth some 100-1000 years ago somewhere deep in the equitorial forest... who would have written about it? We are now seening these diseases simply because we are now travelling more and we are connected to these people. Would it suprise you if I told you that I knew that NBC cameraman? I think I met him on a certain bash and we were on the same mailing list discussing ebola. Now that you know me... you are 3 degrees of separation away from a person who actually had Ebola - that is the reality of this world that makes people think 'things are new'.

In other news... Hospital beds are empty.... in Monrovia. I first heard this story from a dude who works next to the main road in Monrovia. Ambulances in October have been far less active... in September the road was screaming with sirens. He told me that Hospital beds are empty and naturally I didn't trust him.... I just saw an article today in the new york times that points to that.

the term 'may' explains it all....