Henry Kyobe Bosa

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Jane Apunyo, head nurse at an Ebola treatment center in Mubende, Uganda, last week. Badru Katumba/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

The first major Ebola outbreak in Uganda happened when I was a medical student at Makerere University in Kampala. A professor of virology explained to us the dangers of filoviruses, the virus family Ebola belongs to, and why they should be avoided at all costs.

Seven years later, in 2007, I was a newly minted military officer, detailed to respond to a new Ebola outbreak near the border of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, where I saw this danger firsthand.

It’s one thing to learn about the virus in medical school, but it’s another to travel deep into a remote area to face a deadly scourge.…  Seguir leyendo »