Flu-like symptoms? This isn't the flu it's EBOLA! Or at least that's what some people think. Check out these hilarious overreactions to the Ebola scare.

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There was a medical conference in Chicago earlier this week, where doctors and nurses got together to try and solve the problem of misinformed patients coming into Emergency Rooms around the nation. Patients suffering flu-like symptoms have been coming into Emergency rooms, believing that they have the Ebola virus. In reality, they are more likely to have the flu with those flu-like symptoms. The medical community are worried that with the flu season coming, these cases will start happening more often in emergency rooms around the nation. Examples shared by those attending the meeting include:

  • An Ohio patient thought she had Ebola because her husband had worked in Dallas........but not with the Ebola patient.
  • A New Mexico woman went to the ER to get tested for Ebola because she had visited Africa.......two years ago.
  • Two Alabama patients thought they may have been infected by the Ebola virus......because they went through the Atlanta airport, the city where Ebola patients were being treated.

But sadly this isn't just the public panicking, school boards and colleges are joining in, keeping people away for ridiculous reasons. EVERYBODY PANIC!!!!

  • A teacher in the Houston area recently traveled to Tanzania and returned as the Ebola scare was reaching its height in Dallas. The school board stated that "out of an abundance of caution,” she had to stay home for the next 21 days. Unfortunately for those students, their teachers and administrators don't seem to realize the distance between the Ebola epidemic and Tanzania. More than 3,000 miles. That's the distance between those two places.  There are also zero cases of Ebola in Tanzania at this time.
  • In Burlington County, New Jersey, an elementary school notified parents that two students enrolled from Africa enrolled into the school. After parent backlash, the school is now not allowing the students to attend class for 21 days. The children in question moved from Rwanda, which is about 2600 miles away from the closest affected country in West Africa. That's the distance between Seattle and Philadelphia.
  • Two students of Nigerian descent applied to Navarro College in Texas and were told they were rejected because "they are not accepting international students from countries with confirmed Ebola cases. Both men live in Texas and haven't been to Nigeria recently. When the school was confronted, their response was, "Our focus for 2014-15 is on students from China and Indonesia."
  • The family of a third-grader in Connecticut filed a lawsuit against Milford Public Schools, saying their daughter was banned from school for 21 days because of Ebola fears when she returned from a trip to Lagos, Nigeria, for a family wedding.
  • A teacher in Maine was placed on a 21-day paid leave of absence after parents told the school board they were concerned that she might have been exposed to Ebola during a trip to Dallas for an educational conference.

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