There was a period when it felt like the Ebola outbreak in West Africa was gobbling the world. Apocalyptic headlines; heart-wrenching photos of stricken patients; that story of the woman who survived but was too sick to crawl to her fiancé after he was carried, screaming, into the same treatment center, where he died without knowing she was there. Then the disease arrived in the United States, and panic truly broke loose.
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