Ebola News and Lies\r<br>\r<br>The Simpsons predicted US Ebola outbreak in 1997 Episode shows Marge offering a sick Bart childrens\r<br>\r<br>How The Simpsons predicted US Ebola outbreak in 1997: Episode shows Marge offering a sick Bart childrens book Curious George and the Ebola Virus\r<br>\r<br>Episode called Lisas Sax first aired on October 19, 1997\r<br>The season nine episode shows Marge trying to coax Bart to read a book called Curious George and the Ebola Virus\r<br>The Simpsons has been at the cutting edge of popular culture for a quarter of a century - but do Springfields most famous residents have the ability to predict the future?\r<br>\r<br>According to Internet conspiracy theorists, The Simpsons predicted the Ebola crisis - after a 1997 episode from season nine of the popular cartoon featured Marge trying to coax a sick Bart out of bed and into an activity.\r<br>\r<br>Among her suggestions is reading which she illustrated by showing him a copy of a book entitled Curious George and the Ebola Virus.\r<br>\r<br>Ebola was discovered in 1976 following major outbreaks that year in the Sudan and Zaire. In the 1990s, the disease saw a resurgence with an outbreak in Gabon in 1994, followed by another in Zaire in 1995.\r<br>\r<br>It could be said that other than the current Ebola crisis, the worst in recorded history, The Simpsons episode actually predicted the outbreak which occurred three years after the show aired.\r<br>Between 2000-2004, close to 500 people died from Ebola in Uganda, Gabon, the Republic of Congo and Sudan. \r<br>The current outbreak, which began last December, has killed more than 3,800 people, according to the latest World Health Organization figures. \r<br>\r<br>The vast majority of those deaths have been in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone\r<br>\r<br>The clip appeared on a YouTube channel called the Controversy7 where the host discusses the Ebola virus among various other theories about the power of the Hollywood film industry.\r<br>\r<br>The presenter of the site, Emmanuel Lokonga, wrote: Is there something we are not being told? Is it by pure chance & coincidence that the Simpsons would do predictive programming?\r<br>The episode where the Ebola book appeared was called Lisas Sax and first aired on October 19, 1997.\r<br>\r<br>Despite the apparent chilling prediction from The Simpsons, Ebola was already well-known as a havoc-wreaking deadly virus in the late Nineties\r<br>\r<br>\r<br>\r<br>TAGS\r<br>\r<br>ebola news\r<br>ebola news 2014\r<br>ebola predict\r<br>ebola news in liberia\r<br>ebola outbreak 2014\r<br>simpsons ebola\r<br>hoax\r<br>ebola hoax\r<br>the simpsons ebola virus\r<br>simpsons ebola virus\r<br>ebola,\r<br>ebola patients\r<br>ebola lie
