While Ebola is grabbing all the headlines, health care workers in the U.S. are worried about a much bigger and deadlier threat: the flu. Unlike Ebola, the flu could kill tens of thousands of people in the U.S. this year, doctors say. "Americans are far more likely to get the flu this year than they are to get Ebola, and actually, are far more likely to die from the flu this year than to die from Ebola," said Dr. Scott Wilber, of Summa Akron City Hospital in Ohio.
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