Ebola plush toys are “selling like hot cakes” at a Connecticut company called Giant Microbes Inc., which sells more than 150 different designs of cute, cuddly replicas of microscopic images.
A Connecticut company has been making a plush toy shaped like the Ebola virus for the last five years, and calls it an educational tool. The company makes toys of every microscopic organism starting from bird flu, HIV, herpes, diarrhea etc.
Giant Microbes specialises in cute versions of Ebola and lther killer bugs
Account manager Carol Allam said: “We’ve been running the Ebola toy for years but now everyone’s after one. We’ve sold thousands over the last couple of months. They are all gone. It’s because it’s so lifelike. If you look under a microscope you’ll see the shape of the Ebola virus is just like the toy.
Herpes plush toy
With Ebola and everything that is going on, people are interested about learning more and this product provides a way for people to learn about it. People are buying it to talk about it and if we ever felt it was being used inappropriately, we would reconsider it.”
Dirarrhea stuffed toy
A portion of the proceeds from the sales of the Ebola plush toy will be donated to Ebola crisis organizations.
West Africa is the worst affected area. In Liberia, over 2,300 people have died, while in Sierra Leone and Guinea the death toll stands at nearly 1,000 each. The deadly virus has also reached Nigeria, Senegal, Spain and the US but outbreaks have been contained so far.
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