Ebola

Horror's True Gift

The wreckage of last year's Ebola outbreak remains, and for the first time in 2015, cases have risen in three African nations. The crisis is far from over, so why don't we care anymore?

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Nature’s Most Perfect Killing Machine

Ebola is nightmare fuel: a biological doomsday device conspiring with our bodies to murder us in uniquely gruesome fashion. It’s also killed fewer than 2,000 people. How has a virus with such a modest body count so fiercely captured the darkest corners of our imagination?