"I can't shake hands … I'm afraid of contracting Ebola," says Simeon Ochibike, 20, when asked how he would react if he met a friend who survived Ebola.
According to the study, those whose minds were elsewhere while being taught certain concepts, like what a virus is and numbers, are at a significantly greater risk of being afraid of catching Ebola than people who were paying even scant attention.
On that very same day, however, the rebels themselves released 40 people they had recently abducted in Gulu, apparently because they were afraid of catching Ebola.
There was the blog I wrote when the first Ebola case arrived in New York where I said that I am not that afraid of the small Ebola risk in the U.S. because I am on the front lines of the mental health crisis and constantly see the unnecessary and tragic deaths from these conditions all around us.
People are very very afraid, because they have never heard of Ebola before.
Based on the news axiom "if-it-bleeds-it-leads" and the cerebral amygdala's acute sensitivity to fear, Bob Shrum and Rich Lowry discuss how the rise of Ebola and ISIS are merging into a national campaign theme of "Be Very Afraid".
"People are tired of Ebola.
