Ebola

I might have been a bit premature with announcing my internship at Pretoria to the world. For all I now they could email me tomorrow to say that they won’t be needing anyone after all…*pessimistic thoughts* But anyways, I’ve announced it to a few of my friends and I’ve noticed that a popular response is: “aren’t you afraid of catching the Ebola virus?”

Now I knew that the outbreak was mostly centred in West Africa, but I looked it up anyways:

My first reaction was: “OH NO! South Africa is pink!” A closer look however revealed that there has been a shocking total of two cases of Ebola in South Africa. That’s right, TWO! The Democratic Republic of Congo has close to a thousand cases according to this map and probably even more by now.

I hereby conclude that the chance of attracting the Ebola virus while visiting South Africa, and only South Africa, is pretty tiny. I won't be tempting fate by hanging out with anyone that shows symptoms though...