How to survive an Ebola apocalypse: Doomsday preppers head for the hills

American “preppers” are planning, training and stockpiling for an Ebola calamity of Biblical proportions. On the shopping list: cheesy lasagna and mushroom stroganoff.

With the closest known US cases of Ebola diagnosed about 258km away in Dallas, Texas, Cary Griffin is taking no chances. If, as the former correctional officer fears, the virus spreads to hundreds of people, Griffin is headed to the woods. “I’ll do what the English royalty did to survive the bubonic plague,” Griffin says, referring to King Charles II’s flight to the countryside during the Great Plague of London in 1665-66. “I’m going into the country.”