How Is Ebola Similar In The Masque Of The Red Death

Edgar Allan Poe, writer of "The Masque of the Red Death" could very well be talking about present-day disease, Ebola. In the story, many things send readers' minds straight to the disease and for good reason. Poe could be psychic, or he may simply have a very avid imagination; nonetheless, the similarities are very, very strange. Some of those similarities are the symptoms. One symptom that stands out in my mind as a similarity is the bleeding of the pores. In the beginning of the story, Poe tells of bleeding pores as one of the main symptoms. Did I mention the sharp excruciating pains in the abdomen? Well, that is another one of the terrible symptoms. How did the author know that Ebola, the famous disease, would have these symptoms? The differences are many, but maybe he simply left some things out so nobody would catch on that he is a psychic, or a male witch. Who knows, right? The author also describes

Is he a mad scientist? Okay, so he is not the inventor of the disease, because unlike the Red Death, there is believed to be a cause of Ebola; fruit bats. We live almost in a different world than those in third-world countries like Africa. They eat things we would never dream of, and surely they think the same about us. One of those things, are fruit bats. It is believed that the fruit bats first carried the disease Ebola. Being that it is contagious, scientists and doctors believe the disease first transferred to humans when people ate the fruit bats. With the Red Death, you died within thirty minutes. In those times, they were not sanitary. They could have had the symptoms for a long time and not known about it until it became severe, the day, or hour, they would die. With Ebola, you have the disease for longer, so if you actually had it and did not know about it, could that be added to the list of