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Originally Posted by Old Dog New Trick
Back in the 90s when I was an 18D, I read "The Hot Zone" (Richard Preston) about Ebola and thought right there and then to not just walk away from medicine, but run!
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Yep, I read that too in late 90's and thought it was more horrifying than all Stephen King novels combined. Reston, Marburg, Sudan...and the Zaire strain. What other disease out there than turns you literary to a soup?! I remember we are taught in the disaster response class that emergency worker s(ER MD, RN, EMT, tech, etc.) are akin to the canaries used in the mining industry. When those guys start dropping dead, then it's truly SHTF.
In the 90's, there was also a tv show called Millennium that showed what a (bird-borne) ebola outbreak in the US might look like.
Prayers out to the doctor and the missionary.
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