Ebola article from www.theguardian.

A good article for discussion..please don't shoot the messenger..

[link to www.theguardian.

A deadly disease is set to hit the shores of the US, UK and much of the rest of the northern hemisphere in the coming months. It will swamp our hospitals, lay millions low and by this time next year between 250,000 and 500,000 worldwide will be dead, thousands of them in the US and Britain.

Despite the best efforts of the medical profession, there’s no reliable cure, and no available vaccine offers effective protection for longer than a few months at a time.

If you’ve been paying attention to recent, terrifying headlines, you may assume the illness is the Ebola virus. Instead, the above description refers to seasonal flu – not swine or bird flu, but regular garden variety influenza.

Our fears about illness often bear little relation to our chances of falling victim to it, a phenomenon not helped by media coverage, which tends towards the novel and lurid rather than the particularly dangerous.

I looked into the flu circulating in the Southern Hemisphere, which will soon be here, and no indication so far that it will be more severe or different.  Seems like a fairly typical flu season, but who knows.....  Either way as Chuck mentioned it's always good to get the vax since we never know.  Elver is first in line. 

Whatever the case, that article may not be very accurate.  Good find though.