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========== It's time we talk about Ebola.
It's been on the news a lot and for good reason. It's one of the deadliest
diseases humanity faces - the second deadliest, technically. and it's making a stand in West Africa.
Plus, for the first time, two US citizens with the disease have been flown home for treatment. But don't bar the doors and
windows, or get yourself walled up into some kinda 2006 bird flu hysteria
because we've met Ebola before and we're learning more about it than
ever. [Sigla] It used to be known as Ebola
Hemorrhagic Fever more recently Ebola Virus Disease. But
what the media have lately been referring to simply, and sometimes
hysterically, as Ebola is really one of at least five known
species of the Ebola virus. What th...