Yes, but we're talking a disease which has had 2387 cases reported...ever... until this recent outbreak. Its not nearly wide enough a sample to know what the disease would do en masse YET. Its also mostly been in isolated pockets, with limited victims. There's also the case that the more people infected per outbreak, the larger the survival rate - in the 2000 Uganda outbreak, nearly 50% of sufferers lived to tell the tale. Rather than being the outright harbinger of death, it seems to depend on underlying health issues/quality of nearby medical facilities/etc.   The chap who came down with suspected Ebola in Germany in 1999, he died. [And that was one of only 2 cases in Europe - neither of which caused a mass outbreak due to isolation methods.] At the same time, there was a report that linked a plant which is a heavy source of diet in parts of West Africa, with stavving off the Ebola - not sure if anything came of that though.   Even in this outbreak, it still fits in, as the area that Doctor mentioned on the forum previously worked in had saved the lives of 100 sufferers already from this current outbreak. And that is just a snippet in the news story about death and destruction, from one area. So yeah, 90% mortality comes from lack of education on the virus/access to the drugs.   There's a lot of scary disease news stories out there (including a new strand of smallpox appearing in Georgia in May, and most of the worlds finest AIDS researchers being wiped out in that bloody plane) and Ebola is easily top of the list for its qualities - I think most Europeans have a race memory of the Black Death, which is similar, and we didn't defeat that either yet - but its not going to cause a worldwide crisis akin to the Spanish Flu.     Also, Ali, the WHO are pushing for the widespread release, or investigation of, further medicines believed to have an effect on the Ebola virus. Unfortunately, as I alluded to above, the very numbers you quote are the types of ones the pharmaceutical companies look at, snort and say "Too small a number, there's no money in it."