What do you personally know about the Ebola virus?

This makes me wish Fluther had a “Hide all the other answers” feature.

Obama claims it is not a threat to the US.
NPR reports if interventions don’t start working soon, as many as 1.4 million people could be infected by Jan. 20.

If 1.4 MILLION people infected, how can the US not be at risk?

I don’t mean this to be a political issue, so much as a common sense question