The Ebola Survival Handbook: An MD Tells You What You Need to Know Now to Stay Safe

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That was the headline that greeted Huffington Post readers via email on a quiet Sunday morning.

This was big news. The medical system of a superpower nation had been trumped by a microscopic organism that looked like a strand of spaghetti. Ebola virus caused a major epidemic in a large region in Africa—all because someone ate bat meat that carried it.

By the end of the week, two nurses who treated Ebola patients in the United States had contracted the disease. These nurses, who were given minimal training in infectious-disease protocols, didn’t just work behind the desk in the emergency room; they worked in an isolation area of an intensive care unit and wore protective gear.

But unlike cases before this, where the disease had been brought to the United States knowingly or unknowingly, these new developments made it clear that Ebola was no longer someone else’s problem—it was now our problem.

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