Type “definition of Ebola” into the Google search bar. You’ll find the answer to be “an infectious and generally fatal disease marked by fever and severe internal bleeding, spread through contact with infected body fluids by a filovirus, whose normal host species is unknown.” You’ll now know about as much as the rest of the Internet does about the illness.

In the United States, couch potatoes and Internet fanatics alike were outraged when they found out that Thomas Eric Duncan, America’s first Ebola patient, was allowed into the country to be treated for such a deadly and contagious disease.

Not that these people would leave their houses anyway.

Questions bombarded the government faster than the click of a mouse. Why would President Barack Obama allow such a risky move? Do we really have the facilities to treat such a virus?

The truth, as it turns out, involves Obama’s love of the hit TV series “The Walking Dead.”

“I’ve loved [The Walking Dead] since it first aired,” admitted Obama at a press conference. “When I found out that those who pass away from Ebola become reanimated, I couldn’t say no.”

Now the deceased Mr. Duncan, along with thousands of people in Africa, hobble the streets at night looking for a brain or two to feed on. There have been no reports on whether the people killed by these “zombies” have been calculated into the Ebola Virus death toll.

Other lovers of the AMC hit show have mixed feelings about this development.

“Don’t get me wrong, I watch [The Walking Dead] every Sunday night,” said SMSU student Alan Tastily. Tastily’s name was changed to respect his privacy. “But I think we need to do everything we can to save the rest of America from the virus, both infected and non-infected people alike.”

President Obama is scheduled for a therapy session later this week after dealing with the backlash of his decision.