Ebola tops the news, but not the charts of scary diseases menacing Galveston County, experts say. Influenza, whooping cough, enterovirus D68, and a full slate of grungy cold bugs are more likely culprits to take us to our mattresses. All can be alarming, and several are preventable. “Right now you should be thinking about influenza,” said Dr. A. Scott Lea, associate professor infectious disease, Department of Internal Medicine at UTMB. Lea has worked in the infectious disease field for more than 30 years. “If you haven’t gotten your influenza shot, you need to get right down and do that, because a lot of the symptoms of influenza are very similar to all these other things everybody is worried about right now.”