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....

I think the 'eating game meat, bats and primates' narrative has to be put in context. This is the context
1) patient 0 MAY have eaten uncooked 'game meat, bats and primates' or may have come across feaces of 'game animals, bats and primates' sometime in Nov/Dec last year. This is where it jumped species.
2) subsequent transmission were human to human.

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funny guy!

again the eating game meat nexus with ebola has to be put in context
1) not all bats, primates and game meat have ebola
2) not all bats, primates and game meat that have ebola and are eaten by humans infect the human
3) not all infected humans get to be known

It's like Anthrax - just because I have been eating cows like my folks and their folks before them does not mean that if I today got anthrax from eating beef implies that it feared my folks. Context my friend... Context..... it may have killed some of my ansestors and someone burnt an old woman claiming that they bewitched my relatives. Many old women may (ingiza Muriel hapa) have been burnt for bewitching first gen e.t.c. We are living in a connected world and so we tend to think every generation before us knew where Lofa county was!

you can actually trace the explosion of this disease from that one child (who did not eat but may have come across a dead bat/monkey or it's droppings e.t.c. the reason I say she did not eat is because If she had eaten it's unlikely she would have eaten alone or she may have gotten it from preparation of the beasts and the whole family would have been the first to be sick but she was the only one sick first and she died and her family followed). by the way do you know that the disease exploded when a witchdoctor thumped her bony chest and claimed that she could heal people and thus people cross borders to get assistance and the old hag also caught the disease and spread it to others in her community wakikujia irizi zao - from that point forward it exploded (her being a prominent person and all her burial was 'grand'). by the way they had kicked it from Liberia only for a family from Sierra Leone to bring it back. It's all human-to-human transmission after patient 0.

what was her age? if she was an infant yes... if she was under 13 it could be that she picked it without eating. handling dead animals and or droppings from these infected animals would cause a cross spiecies infection.