Comment Re:Truly sad (Score 1) 359
Ebola is not as infectious as the flu.
Yet.
So, right now there's at least few thousand people carrying the virus. At least a few of them probably have other cold/flu viruses in their systems. If both Ebola and flu infect the same cell, they can exchange genetic information, potentially resulting in a much more easily transmitted strain of Ebola. The more people that are infected, the greater the chance such genetic exchange could occur. It wouldn't take much for Ebola to become a first world threat.
Ebola is less infectious than HIV and has infected orders of magnitudes fewer people for much shorter periods of time. While it could happen, chances are airborne AIDS is more likely than Ebola, in other words, go back to sleep dear, you were just having a nightmare.