WASHINGTON -- When media outlets aren't hyping the threat of Ebola, they're embracing a much more helpful trend: stories explaining we should really worry about the flu. Americans have gotten the message -- kind of. They're a little more likely to say the flu is a bigger threat to the nation, a new HuffPost/YouGov poll finds, with 45 percent saying the flu is a greater danger, 40 percent naming Ebola, and the remaining 15 percent undecided. Experts are far less divided on which poses the bigger risk. "I don't think there's any question, if you ask 100 infectious disease experts or epidemiologists, what 100 percent of them would say.

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