Ebola In Poe's The Masque Of The Red Death

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Poe, who wrote “The Masque of the Red Death” 200 years ago, could not have been talking about Ebola. Based on what I read, Poe could not tell about the Ebola because he lived a lot of time before than the Ebola was discovered in 1976. The red death is a combination of the Black Plague and tuberculosis for it is not a real disease; Ebola is a real disease that takes people’s lives each day. The red death was a disease they make a severe bleeding to his victims. Ebola makes a bad headaches on the people that was infected. Ebola was named for the Ebola River in the Democratic Republic of Congo, that is where the first outbreak of Ebola took place in 1976. The red death was a disease that took place on Prince Prospero’s kingdom, on

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