If you get it, start praying, even if you are not religious, pick a deity and start chanting.
Ebola is one of the most contagious, horrible, devastating diseases there is. It usually hits impoverished areas and usually in Africa, poor Africa again, as if they don't have enough misery. There was an outbreak recently. One of the courses they thought for it spreading was that people wash the dead and such. It causes a bleeding fever, it's horrific and deadly.
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