The only reason that Ebola is getting as much press as it is, is because it is NEW. We have lived for centuries with diseases as dangerous or more dangerous than Ebola without anything like as much public hand-wringing. For example, rabies, which is only slightly less contagious, but far more deadly (20% to 50% survival rate for Ebola, but something like 0.000001% for rabies).
And frankly, your odds of catching and dying from Ebola are less than winning the big one in the lottery the day before being struck by lightning, on the same day your house burns down from an unrelated cause. And your car gets struck by a meteorite.
So please excuse me from hyperventilating about this one, ok?