The media feeds on these things and they incite fear for a living. Yes it is a horrible disease but not worth a moments thought for me unless I can help. I will live until I die and not know what happened a millisecond after, lol.
Look at the bright side, if half the globe died as a result of it we would have cured global warming (according to the greenies), increased employment opportunities, solved world hunger etc. If all the people on earth fell victim we would have finally achieved world peace, solved animal cruelty, war, all human suffering and so on. So the is a silver lining after all, lol.