Impress your friends with the Sexy Ebola Nurse costume (Picture: Twitter)

Like ISIS, Ray Rice or Gamergate, Ebola is a theme best avoided this Halloween unless you want people to think you’re a total reprobate.

Never one to adhere to standards of human decency, Twitter coughed up the above picture earlier today.

The ‘Sexy Ebola Nurse’ costume apparently exists, and it’s yours for only £45.

Unsurprisingly, people didn’t take too kindly to the flippant sexualisation of a global pandemic that’s already killed thousands.


I just saw an ad for a "sexy Ebola nurse" costume. Internet, this is why you can't have nice things. — C.J. Redwine (@cjredwine) October 26, 2014

The fact that there's a sexy ebola nurse costume proves the sexy costumes have gone out of control. — (@thegrandesong) October 25, 2014

Fuck me. Sexy Ebola nurse. Wtf people. WHY DO WE WORK SO HARD TO SAVE YOU WHEN YOU TREAT NURSES LIKE SEXUAL OBJECTS. — Spoopy Nurse Jo (@grimalkinrn) October 25, 2014

SEXY EBOLA NURSE COSTUME????? SEXY FUCKING EBOLA NURSE COSTUME????? Can we burn the world down yet? — Nigel Farage (@ksej) October 25, 2014

The outrage is understandable. However, some things really are too unpleasant to be true.

The Sexy Ebola Nurse costume is a fake. The original picture is from a Halloween costume website, and it’s depicting a sexy Breaking Bad outfit. The gag was certainly in poor taste, although you wouldn’t expect anything less from a troll.



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If you still want your friends to think you’re an awful person (a sexy awful person!) come October 31st, then another costume company appears to have your back:

A website called Brands On Sale is flogging a ‘Sexy Ebola Containment Suit’, which looks to be very real indeed.

The Sexy Ebola Containment suit doesn’t appear to be a joke (Picture: Brands On Sale)

According to the blurb, ‘The short dress and chic gas mask will be the talk of Milan, London, Paris, and New York as the world’s fashionistas seek global solutions to hazmat couture.’

Hazmat couture: coming to a high street near you.