Ebola is no joke. I did a report on it in high school. WTF! i cant imagine anything worse than your organs turning to mush and bleeding profusely through every hole in your body..eyes, ears, mouth, butthole, peehole..until you die.
Yeah, and you live in a developed country, and you're not elderly. Doesn't change the fact that people in the third world and the elderly are killed by flu.
By most accepted definitions, cancer is a disease. If you mean it isn't caused by a foreign agent intruding on a host, there is a lot of more recent research that disagrees with that statement as well.