The risk that any particular person in the United States will contract Ebola is truly infinitesimal. Over two million people in the United States will die of all causes this year--600,000 of them from heart disease--and so far one has died of Ebola. Yet a great number of people in the United States are afraid, in some cases very afraid, of Ebola. Why have they spent psychological and political energy fearing a fate so unlikely?
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