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GUNNER,

Remember the '95 Ebola outbreak? https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/ebola-outbreak-1995

''Ebola outbreak of 1995

The Ebola outbreak of 1995 primarily affected the town of Kitwit in Zaire, now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Beginning with the death of Gaspard Menga on January 13, the outbreak rapidly impacted his family and the local community, leading to the deaths of 13 out of 23 family members within weeks. The virus likely spread unnoticed in Kitwit General Hospital, where medical personnel mistook Ebola symptoms for shigellosis, a common bacterial infection. It was not until mid-April that the outbreak escalated, following surgeries performed on an infected laboratory technician, which resulted in numerous hospital staff becoming infected.''

My father was over one of his nephews homes about three weeks later and a guy there had just come from Africa,south Africa i think.

& of course i thought ''who goes to Africa for anything?''

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