It is believed that Ebola isn't a great threat to the united states because theres been only a certain amount of people that have gotten affected but either died or gotten better. The
American people don't have to make a big fuss about it because at the moment there was only about 6 people that were infected with ebola. Also ebola would take time to take over the population. In west africa it took time for almost thousand of people to get infected.
Source ll http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/outbreaks/history/chronology.html OUTBREAKS CHRONOLOGY : EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE
Years
Country
Ebola subtype Reported # of humans cases Percent of deaths Cause
December
2007
January
2008
Uganda
Bundibugyo virus 6
0
First known occurrence of it in pigs. Six workers from a pig farm/slaughter house developed antibodies but did not become ill.
June
October
2012
Uganda
sudan virus
11
13 (36.1%)
This occurred in kibaale district of
Uganda in a laboratory when a female worker had samples of blood that were conducted by the
UVRI and the
CDC.
March 2014
(present)
Multiple countries Zaire virus
13,241
4950 (37%) This occurred in multiples countries especially west africa August 2014
(present)
Democratic
Republic of the congo
Zaire virus
66
49 (74%)
This was an outbreak in multiple villages in
DRC. The outbreak was unrelated to the on in
west