[net-gold] MEDICAL: DISEASESS: EBOLA : COUNTRIES: UNITED STATES : FEAR PANIC AND DISTRESS : POLITICS: UNITED STATES: POLITICS: POLITICAL PARTIES: REPUBLICAN PARTY, TEA PARTY: Ebola in the US: Concerns Outpace Real Risk as 'Preppers' Ready for Unlikely Outbreak
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- Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 17:02:51 -0400 (EDT)
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MEDICAL: DISEASESS: EBOLA :
COUNTRIES: UNITED STATES :
FEAR PANIC AND DISTRESS :
POLITICS: UNITED STATES: POLITICAL PARTIES: REPUBLICAN PARTY, TEA PARTY:
Ebola in the US: Concerns Outpace Real Risk
as 'Preppers' Ready for Unlikely Outbreak
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Ebola in the US: Concerns Outpace Real Risk
as 'Preppers' Ready for Unlikely Outbreak
By Philip Ross
October 22 2014 4:35 PM
International Business Times
http://www.ibtimes.com/ebola-us-concerns-outpace-
real-risk-preppers-ready-unlikely-outbreak-1710071
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The flu virus is responsible for about 36,000 deaths in the U.S. every
year, but the common killer hardly elicits the same panic as Ebola, a
disease that has devastated parts of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, but
has killed just one person in the U.S. Ebola has dominated headlines
across the country and has led to some Americans isolating themselves in
their homes, skipping school and staying home from work because of what
they see on the news and social media. The prospect of a major outbreak in
the U.S. still looms large for many Americans, but health officials say
the hysteria over Ebola is driven by fear, not facts.
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Despite the extremely low infection rate in the U.S., some Americans have
taken their concern for Ebola beyond the Internet and into the classroom.
Doomsday preppers people who maintain stockpiles of food, weapons and
other supplies in preparation for a natural disaster or societal collapse
-- are taking survival courses that touch on Ebola, among other things,
like what to do in a power outage or terrorist attack. Politicians have
got in on it, as well, evoking Ebola to drum up votes ahead of the midterm
elections in November. "People with Ebola and other infectious diseases
can enter the country without being challenged, New Hampshire Republican
Senate candidate Scott Brown claimed recently.
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Health experts maintain that the risk of contracting the virus in the U.S.
is almost zero. As one writer humorously pointed out, more Americans have
been married to reality star Kim Kardashian than have died from Ebola in
the country. A constant stream of fresh Ebola news reinforces concerns
about the virus, experts say. Its like buying a new car, Gabriel Crenshaw,
a psychologist and lecturer at the University of Southern Californias
School of Social Work, told IBTimes. You never saw a Toyota Camry in
burgundy before, but now driving the street, all you see are burgundy
Toyota Camries. Crenshaw suggests if you feel yourself becoming anxious
[about Ebola,] turn off the news for a bit.
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TV and print reporters have helped stroke fears over Ebola. Fox News, for
example, told viewers Ebola would soon go airborne. Former New York Times
executive editor Jill Abramson called the recent media coverage of Ebola
"disgraceful." "I have to roll my eyes when, like today, I'm reading all
these stories about "the panic." Well, who helped cause the panic? I mean,
please!" she said.
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