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It's quite deadly when you actually get it, but as far as I understand the transmission rate is not very high. That's why the death toll is not increasing at a faster rate. Yet it should be closely watched. It's definitely more worrying that any of the previous H1N1 media panics.

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Reported death toll. The biggest cause for concern is that every story that comes out immediately starts talking about how we don't really know how many people are infected or have died, due to the distrust of the local population in medicine.

The second paragraph in this story states that recorded cases of infection are now over 4000. With a 90% mortality rate, the known death toll will double in the next few weeks.

I don't think this is likely to become pandemic, but it must be a very scary situation in Africa.

> I don't think this is likely to become pandemic, but it must be a very scary situation in Africa.

I don't think we should undermine Ebola, but hey, AIDS kill way more people in Sub-saharan Africa every year. In 2011 there were 1.2 millions of AIDS related death there. That's more than 3000 people dying every single day.

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