Does this mean we are all going to die soon?

[Buzzer]

I half wonder if a good portion of the "reassuring" scientific babble they put out isn't really true (ie: Ebola not able to be passed via air, etc)

You are right to be skeptical. The truth is, they simply don't have a lot of information about it yet. Sadly, an exotic disease that primarily strikes rural areas in poor areas of Africa just doesn't get the kind of industry-wide attention it ideally should. (Did anyone else find it just a LITTLE bit strange that when they planed back in those two white missionaries to Georgia, they suddenly whip out this "never before tried on humans" special experimental ebola treatment, and it seems to have WORKED?) Hate to be a cynic but it seems like the best thing to happen for the sufferer of a scary disease is to have middle class or affluent people in the first world start catching it. Then all of a sudden people can see a justifiable profit motive in developing treatments for it.

There is a lot of "panic-avoiding" assuring language on publicly available CDC guides and such. But the actual scientific research on ebola is limited both because of the rarity of outbreaks, the remote location of outbreaks, the usual lack of hygienic conditions in outbreak locations, and the speed at which most outbreaks prior to this one burned themselves out. The formal scientific research as to how, exactly, it can spread, is not entirely conclusive, and there is no absolutely conclusive finding that it cannot be spread through the air. (People also forget that many diseases that are not strictly airborne, as in they cannot survive on their own floating in the air, can still easily be passed through the air on sneezed or coughed particulates.) There just isn't enough of a history with enough research to be totally sure.