Americans' Fear of Ebola Creates a Market for Some Pretty Sick Products

The easy way to get the virus—as a gift

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If there’s one thing freaking out Americans out right now, it’s Ebola. A poll just released by the Harvard School of Public Health found that 26 percent of Americans believe someone in their family will get sick with the virus in the next year, and close to 40 percent of us believe the country is destined for a major Ebola outbreak. Never mind that there have been exactly zero transmitted cases domestically and the virus is actually pretty hard to contract.

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