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Editor, Senior Moderator
By Ricki Lewis, PhD
Posted: August 14, 2014
“That’s not Ebola!” I said to the vendor standing beside a display of boxer shorts festooned with pathogens, at a biology teachers conference a few years ago.
“No, that’s Ebola. Read the tag.”
“The tag’s wrong. It’s influenza. See the spokes on the surface? Ebola looks like a soup ladle.”
He didn’t believe me, but the website was corrected a few months later. I still have my faux Ebola shorts somewhere.
JUST 7 GENES
The stark seeming-simplicity of the Ebola virus flashes across my mind whenever I receive an email from Emmanuel, a medical student in Liberia whom my husband and I have been supporting since he contacted me after reading my human genetics textbook in 2007.
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Eman wants to know why the US didn’t pay attention until the arrival here of two patients. So do I.
http://blogs.plos.org/dnascience/2014/08/14/ebola-kills/
Posted: August 14, 2014
“That’s not Ebola!” I said to the vendor standing beside a display of boxer shorts festooned with pathogens, at a biology teachers conference a few years ago.
“No, that’s Ebola. Read the tag.”
“The tag’s wrong. It’s influenza. See the spokes on the surface? Ebola looks like a soup ladle.”
He didn’t believe me, but the website was corrected a few months later. I still have my faux Ebola shorts somewhere.
JUST 7 GENES
The stark seeming-simplicity of the Ebola virus flashes across my mind whenever I receive an email from Emmanuel, a medical student in Liberia whom my husband and I have been supporting since he contacted me after reading my human genetics textbook in 2007.
...
Eman wants to know why the US didn’t pay attention until the arrival here of two patients. So do I.
http://blogs.plos.org/dnascience/2014/08/14/ebola-kills/