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  Ebola is real. Our risk is not. Protect front line health-workers.

  Posted on October 28, 2014 by nikki in aid work, health and beauty, politics and religion, science/research.

  As a field epidemiologist, I have responded to disease outbreaks all over Africa during the past 10 years, from cholera to meningitis to Hepatitis E. Any other year, I’d be in Liberia right now, in gumboots with a map and a spreadsheet, trying to track and contain Ebola’s spread alongside my colleagues. Because of a […]

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