Influenza, notes Smith, kills 20,000 to 30,000 people in the US every year. (To say nothing of pandemic risk.) Thats a disease Americans ought to worry about. In contrast, Ebola, all told, has killed about 2,500 people worldwide since 1976, explains Smith....Other fearmongering myths about Ebola that Smith has debunked on her blog and in recent articles include the idea that weve never had the Ebola virus present in the US before (we have), and that Ebola has killed a lot of people. While its clearly a tragedy, Smith writes that Ebola is not even a blip on the list of the worlds most important killers. Malaria, she notes, kills about 68 people per hour on this planet. Ebola, since its emergence in 1976, has killed fewer than 70 people per year. scienceblogs/aetiology/2014/08/02/ebola-is-already-in-the-united-states/ Marji Mullis
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