looks at the fear of the Ebola disease, as experts says it is bad, but not endemic as portrayed
Since the beginning of this Ebola thing my husband has been very careful, "before now, everything was bushmeat each time he travels, but now he is cautious"
Those were the words of Stella Afam, a housewife in Lagos where panic was created by a 40-year old Liberian national on July 20, 2014, arrived at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport Lagos, from Monrovia via Lome on Asky Airline Flight No KP50, on his way to Calabar for the eighth ECOWAS Retreat of Heads of Offices meeting, as a senior ECOWAS official in Liberia. 
What happened
His plane was reported to have had a brief stop at Accra and Lome, and the aircraft was changed at Lome. He was also reported to have fallen ill while on board and remained very ill on arrival at the airport in Lagos. He was then assisted by various airport and ECOWAS protocol staff to a private hospital named First Consultant Medical Centre, Obalende, Lagos.
Fortunately he patient had been taken to first-class facility that was able to handle the case. 
An initial diagnosis of suspected Viral Haemorrhagic fever was made. The unnamed Liberian was admitted and investigations were carried and supportive treatment was commenced. The private hospital immediately notified the State Ministry of Health, who also informed the Federal Ministry of Health. The patient, however, died at about 6:50 a.m. on July 25, 2014 and has since been cremated according to Lagos State Cremation Law. The facility has been demobilised and primary source of infection eliminated.
But fear reigns
With the outbreak in the West African nation of Guinea, Liberia making headlines around the world, as the vicious disease’s death toll slowly climbs, Nigerian authorities had to stand up.
Many like Stella are taking serious pre-cautions, on social media, many Nigerians talked about how they avoided shaking hands just out of fear.
Kingsley Udoh, a mechanic in Abuja, the Nigerian capital, Says "I wash my hands more than ten times a day now, they say the Ebola has no cure..."
The threat
Countless articles have been written about the supposed potential of a scourge of Ebola.
In Guinea, the outbreak had infected 122 people, killing 78 of them, Doctors Without Borders reported. An American doctor was also among the victims.
Its not the worst
But the truth is that there are many far more common diseases that have claimed hundreds of times as many lives as Ebola, and the chance that that will change anytime soon is highly unlikely, according to leading experts. 
In comparison, another hemorrhagic fever called Lassa fever is “endemic in parts of West Africa including Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea and Nigeria,” where it infects between 300,000 and 500,000 people and kills about 5,000 each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And just in 2012, an estimated 5,100 people died of AIDS in Guinea alone, according to UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS.
According to Coordinator, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr. Abdulsalami Nasidi Said “Ebola virus is one of the things that keep public health officials up, If this virus was able to spread between people more easily than it currently does, it would have the potential to be more deadly than AIDS. But currently it is not.”
Ebola victims have a 25 to 90 percent chance of dying from the disease, but they have a limited chance of getting it in the first place.
Nasidi states that “It’s worth remembering that this isn’t the most infectious virus,” “Those most at risk are close contacts and healthcare workers, but basic precautions -- good hygiene and use of personal protective equipment -- are effective in stopping the spread.”
Ebola is not an airborne illness like influenza, or one that can be easily transmitted in its early stages. Contact with a person in the advanced stages of the illness or a corpse of someone who succumbed to the disease are the main ways it spreads.
But briefing Journalists, President, Nigerian Academy of Science, Prof. Oyewale Tomori said that “the publicity that’s associated with Ebola is a good thing even though it’s scaring some people, because it makes people aware.”

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