It's the reason we're all reading this from a bath of Purell™, the reason we burned all of our clothes, and the reason our moms are so worried about us. It's the reason we've stopped eating poop we find on the train, and the reason we dug a grave to our proportions in the backyard, just in case. It's Ebola, my man, and Anne Hathaway wouldn't shake a journalist's hand because of it, apparently.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, director Ridley Scott, along with producer Lynda Obst, is developing an Ebola outbreak limited series for Fox TV Studios based on Richard Preston's best-selling high school reading assignment The Hot Zone. Preston will apparently have a new story in this week's New Yorker about the virus' spread from West Africa to the U.S.