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Ebola In The Masque Of The Red Death

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Could Poe possibly be talking about Ebola in the Masque of the Red Death. Well he did have some similarities in his story to Ebola. We know that the Red Death was excruciating like Ebola ; was it truly the same disease? Ebola " the epidemic that broke out in 2014" made people bleed from their pores, and made your organs fail. Also monarchs and higher class citizens didn't want to be near victims. All these similarities are similar to the Red Death. We know that prince Prospero did not want to be near anyone with the Red Death. I do not think that the Red Death could be Ebola. I suggest it is the black plague. Poe was alive after the Plague so he would know it existed. He would have never known that Ebola could possibly become an outbreak. The

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