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4 Lessons from American who survived Ebola-Like virus

By ABC News  
   October 07, 2014

Michelle Barnes didn't have any symptoms of the Ebola-like virus that nearly killed her until she was in the air on a flight home to the United States from her Uganda vacation. She had contracted Marburg virus, a "cousin" of the Ebola virus, but the diagnosis wouldn't come until about a year after her nightmare plane ride, three trips to the doctor upon returning to the U.S. and 12-day stay in the hospital as her organs shut down. That was 2008. Today, she watches the coverage of the worst Ebola outbreak in history unfold through different eyes than the rest of us.

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