Somebody with math skill check me on this, but the population of Africa is something like 1.1 billion, of whom approx. 5000 have died of Ebola since the disease was identified some 40 years ago. Therefore, even in Africa, your chances of dying of this illness are roughly 1 in 250,000 spread over 40 years. So in America, with a population of about 320 million, and if our medical and quarantine procedures were as backward as those in much of Africa, we could expect maybe 1250 people to die of Ebola over the next 40 years.

Must stop now as I am rushing out to buy duct tape, plastic tarps, and gunz.