PAYSON – The Mann family of Payson, Arizona are members are missionaries with CrossWay International. They work to share the Gospel of Grace and serve the Body of Christ.

According to the Payson Roundup, Allen Mann recently returned to Payson from missionary work in rural Liberia, one of several African countries beset by the Ebola epidemic.

He was contacted about his trip by the Roundup and found that he had simply voluntarily quarantined himself as a precaution, as reported by Channel 3.

Currently he displays no symptoms of the disease. According to the Roundup:

Mann was asked what he and his doctor felt were the odds he’d been exposed to Ebola on a scale of one to 10 scale. “A ‘one,’” Mann said.

The terrible effects of the disease may have already been felt in Arizona however. That of unreasoning fear.

Because of this incident, fear-mongering web sites have already spread the news that Ebola is now in Arizona. None of them report that the only way to contract the disease is by direct contact of an infected person or the fluids of the infected person. Is is not a disease contracted through the air. Ebola is not always fatal and patients generally make a full recovery.

This is one of the few areas in which Franklin Delano Roosevelt could be considered correct. The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.