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Why Ebola shouldn’t frighten Nairobians

For weeks now, everyone has been running scared, shouting Ebola this, Ebola that. You would think the world is ending!I was even afraid NGO activists would besiege the Kenya Airways headquarters and chain themselves to one of the planes to petition the airline against its continued forays into Ebola territory.

Yet I don’t think anyone, least of all a Kenyan, should lose much sleep over this thing. Not too long ago, a flu called SARs erupted somewhere and we went bonkers. After lots of panic the flu passed, without as much as killing one chicken.

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