Ebola overreaction will do more harm than good

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Ebola overreaction will do more harm than good

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/ebola-overreaction-more-harm-good-202709310.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/HlMVyq966SV6kyJ3CTaeHQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/Part-DV-DV1842128-1-1-0.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="Aid workers and doctors transfer Roman Catholic priest Miguel Pajares, who contracted the deadly Ebola virus, and Spanish nun Juliana Bonoha Bohe at Madrid's Torrejon air base on August 7, 2014" align="left" title="Aid workers and doctors transfer Roman Catholic priest Miguel Pajares, who contracted the deadly Ebola virus, and Spanish nun Juliana Bonoha Bohe at Madrid's Torrejon air base on August 7, 2014" border="0" /></a>Anxiety over Ebola is spreading faster and wider than the virus itself could ever do, say experts who cautioned Friday against overreacting to an admittedly scary but containable disease. Images of doctors in protective suits, goggles and masks transporting victims of the deadly haemorrhagic fever in plastic capsules strike fear into the hearts of many, as headlines warn of an epidemic &quot;out of control&quot;. Media keep close tabs of each new suspected case reported outside of the hardest hit countries, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, where nearly 1,000 people have died in what the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Friday termed a &quot;public health emergency&quot;. &quot;It's a dramatic disease,&quot; said virologist John Oxford of the Queen Mary College in London of the fear that has led to calls from some quarters for people carrying the virus to be denied entry into a country.</p><br clear="all"/>

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