Doctors say we're entering the worst flu season in a decade, Boston's mayor has declared a public health emergency, and Chicago hospitals are having to turn away sick people. So we should panic, right? Not yet, according to recent flu epidemics.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday that this year's west nile virus outbreak was the nation's largest ever, and suddenly it does seem pretty serious, if not downright scary.
Ebola is so terrifying and so deadly that an outbreak in Uganda, where the death toll hit 14 on Tuesday, has already started taking its toll on social graces and, in some instances, causing a panic.
Scientists say the bacterial 'chimera' includes plague genes
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