Everything You Need To Know About #EbolaVirus

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The Ebola Virus has reached the United States and a flood of information (and misinformation) has taken over social media.

Though the current outbreak has been contained and anyone exposed to the infected individual has been quarantined, that has not stopped people from panicking.

Is this the coming of the apocalypse? Is if the next Black Plague? The next Bird Flu? Or is it the killer bees the news always said were coming yet never came.

Before we share with you some of the best and worse news and social media posts on the potential #EbolaOutbreak, it's important to remember some basic facts.

1. It's really hard to contract Ebola -- it takes a bodily fluid.
2. If you don't travel to parts of Africa your chances of exposure are minimal.
3. Ebola is treatable if discovered early enough.

Ebola and the threat of a horrible outbreak makes for good TV and it has set social media on fire. Look below for a look at that the credible and incredulous sources are saying.