Ebola Panic Zone

This short story of just over 10,000 words is a fiction based on fact. It comes mainly out of imagination, though there is factual material, especially in the beginning, to keep the piece honest. The story is not intended to promote panic. It is simply one writer's vision of one possible future, out of infinite possibilities.
Ebola Panic Zone was written in late 2014 after the Ebola virus finally escaped Africa and arrived in the United States. At the time, news of the virus caused mixed reactions, ranging from the panic which comes from the fear of the unknown, to the underestimating, overconfident, misleadingly reassuring stance of the US Centers for Disease Control and the White House.
The story is set in the here and now, and extends fictionally through the year 2015. It takes place on the planet Earth, all of it. The story is written from the point of view of a blogger going by the name of MOMU, who chose to document events and his personal reactions to developments in the worldwide Ebola saga.
Regardless of whether or not the reader agrees with the opinions of the protagonist MOMU, his blog posts on the rapidly developing Ebola story cover many of the issues that have grabbed our national attention. MOMU expresses the concerns and anxieties, the hopes and the fears of a world coming to terms with this deadly disease.
Join MOMU as he deals with the imminent danger that could be Ebola in 2015.
This fiction was completed and submitted for inital publication in late October 2014.

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