$GWPC As of 10 October 2014, 8,376 suspected cases resulting in the deaths of 4,024 have been reported. It is not the amount of deaths from Ebola, but the possibility of the virus spreading. There are several other viruses that kill hundreds of thousands or millions of people throughout the world, such as Dengue Fever, Malaria, HIV, and TB, but the spread of these other diseases in not as easily done as Ebola.
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