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Edger Allan Poe's The Masque Of Red Death

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Edger Allan Poe, who wrote “The Masque Of Red Death" did not predict the Ebola Virus, because the placing, timing, symptoms, and cures does not depict the Ebola Virus today in history. The Ebola Virus originated from West Africa, but the red death had no origin. The year Poe wrote the "The Masque Of The Red Death” was in May 1842, the Ebola Virus was first discovered in 1976, but the serious Ebola outbreak was in March 2014. So why didn't the epidemic happen in 1976? The two diseases symptoms are different to. The symptoms for the red death are sharp pains, dizziness, profuse bleeding from the pores, and red stains on the bodies and faces of the victims. The symptoms for the Ebola Virus are more complex, high fever, headaches, chills, diarrhea,

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