...well that's one way to look at it...

Or maybe he's trying to say anyone who marries Kim Kardashian eventually dies of Ebola.
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The world may never know.

he's a professor, he should know correct grammar

So would you rather have more people die of ebola?

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not really correlation doesn't equal causation.