[LearsFool]

It is a little a tiny bit different, in that hardly anyone has died.

That's a good point. Well, not a good point, but close. Well, not close, but hopeful. Well, not hopeful, but wildly optimistic to the point of blind self-deception. ;-)

The WHO situation report (referred to in the OP) cites 8033 infections with 3865 deaths - a 48% death rate.

[ansel12]

Actually it is the point to a silly comparison.

You are comparing almost 40 years of outbreaks and about 7 or 8 thousand deaths to “”This is like being around in the 14th century watching daily news reports as the Black Death moved from the Middle East to southern Europe to eventually kill off entire towns and villages, perhaps a third of the entire population of the continent.””

Perhaps you mean AIDs, which in 33 years has killed 36 million and is killing people at the rate about 4500, a day.

[PghBaldy]

I think many of those case will die eventually, so maybe the death rate is higher than what yo figure.