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3. I just don't understand.

Fri Oct 24, 2014, 07:10 AM

Oct 2014

I mean, we've been told time and time again that it's almost impossible to catch Ebola. Why just last night we were told that.

"There is no reason for New Yorkers to be alarmed," Mayor Bill de Blasio said. "Ebola is an extremely hard disease to contract.

So what I guess I'm wondering is how will 90,000 people die from a disease that is so very hard to contract?

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Yale Researchers Project 90,000 Ebola Deaths In Monrovia Alone [View all] cali Oct 2014 OP

God almighty TorchTheWitch Oct 2014 #1

it is a mega-crisis: In West Africa cali Oct 2014 #2

I wasn't sure about the slavery part which is why I said "possibly" TorchTheWitch Oct 2014 #4

I just don't understand. Savannahmann Oct 2014 #3

it's hard to contract it from someone who is asymptomatic. cali Oct 2014 #5