Most of the nation is scared of Ebola. However, Ebola is nowhere near as much of a threat to us as many other diseases. There has been one death in the United States due to Ebola, yet there is massive overreaction. There is not as much coverage of the flu, or diabetes, which should serve as much greater concerns. Ebola is being massively over-covered and is worried about far too much.

There has been one death due to Ebola in the entire history of the United States. Ebola is not like H1N1 (better known as swine flu), a disease where there were about 60 million cases and 12,000 deaths between April 2009 and April 2010 according to the Center for Disease control estimates. Ebola has only claimed 4,500 lives worldwide in its 8 months as a major threat.

Compared to other diseases this year, Ebola seems even less of a threat. Millions of people die from diabetes and cancer every year, yet the one person who died of Ebola has received much more coverage than either of those diseases recently. The United States has decided to limit planes from West Africa to five American airports. This is not something that they have done for H1N1, or that they are doing for the influenza (better known as the flu). Ebola does not have the lowest survival rate of modern diseases, and it has not claimed the most deaths of any disease in the country.

People say that while Ebola is not dangerous in the United States yet, it will soon become an epidemic in this country, like what happened in West Africa. This will not happen because the United States is a first-world country, unlike the countries where Ebola is rampant, which are all developing countries. Even some of the developing countries that had Ebola outbreaks have eradicated the disease. The United States has the best doctors and the best technology in the world.

Other people are worried that the disease could mutate and become unstoppable. The CDC said that they are not aware of a disease mutating in a way that would make it more dangerous or easily transmittable. Even if this happened, there is nothing that doctors can to begin to prepare for a possible mutation, and there is absolutely no benefit to worrying about Ebola mutations before they happen.

Ebola is viewed as a major concern by many Americans, but the disease does not pose much of a risk to Americans. People are worried that Ebola will soon become an epidemic in the United States, but an outbreak will not occur in the US because America has better technology and less fear of authorities. There are many greater threats for Americans to worry about  than Ebola. More people die of random deaths (such as being buried in the sand after a sand collapse) than Ebola.