We now know the name of the nurse who represents the first case of Ebola caught here in the U.S.: Nina Pham. Her apartment is being treated by haz-mat crews, and they’re trying to trace who she had contact with. Although she wore protective gear as she treated Dallas patient Thomas Eric Duncan, she still caught the disease, and that is leading to a lot of speculation.
And to tonight’s point, the conspiracies are really starting to whirl. Over the weekend, singer Chris Brown tweeted: “I don’t know, but I think the Ebola epidemic is a form of population control. S*** is getting pretty crazy bruh.”
There are also Ebola deniers out there. Some people in Africa say the disease doesn’t exist; it’s a cover-up for something, like cannibalism. Some think it was created in a lab on purpose, or that it’s a New World Order plot to control the population. Health officials are also fighting misinformation, like the belief that onions or condensed milk can guard against the disease.
So do any of the Ebola conspiracy theories out there actually make you think twice?
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