I've got an internship in the newsroom of a local radio station, and I find that being in this sort of environment where I'm reading news copy and writing news stories escelates my predisposition towards being worried about diseases.
However, since there has only been one outbreak confirmed in my state, that tends to lessen my concern about the situation. But let me tell you, when that confirmation came through, the newsroom freaked out and everyone started grathering interviews and pulling copy to put on the website.