Was Poe talking about the ebola disease in the “Masque Of The Red Death”? Based on what I read I don’t think Poe was talking about ebola. The reason I think this is because the story was wrote 200 years ago. When Poe was talking about the disease he explained what happened when people got it. When people got it he said “when they caught this disease they bled out of their poors”. People would leave them to die because the disease was contagious. I seriously doubt that it was ebola because ebola wasn’t established in till late 2000’s. But it could have been, I don’t know for sure cause it didn’t tell us what it was it just explained what happened. In the story it didn’t give enough information to tell if it was talking
