marburg is just like ebola, but it hasn't had a movie made after it. [laughter] there were two infections a few years back, and our staff went in there to try to understand how the bats were moving around the region and what might be able to be done to control marburg there. and i asked them, weren't you scared to go into this cave that had 10,000 bat, lots of them with marburg, an often fatal virus, and this enormous python? they said the python didn't worry us and the bats didn't worry because we were wearing those moon suits and the marburg didn't worry us. the cobras worried us. [laughter] and underneath their moon suits, they had to wear leather chants so that -- chaps so if they had a cobra strike, they wouldn't be killed by it. sometimes that kind of experience does make people too used to risk. and we have to always remember that above all, do no harm needs to be more than a motto. it needs to be an organizing principle for all of our work. now, like other health care workers, i have my personal experiences with risk. sometime back i was workin

this and marburg virus and some of these other hemorrhagic fevers they've been around for a long long time there are animals that are infected with the don't crash and burn . when humans go into areas that have been populated by humans perhaps and thousands of years they encounter these animals they get these this disease correct me if i'm wrong any of those so far and that's and the disease tends to be self limiting i mean the big problem with aids was that people could be carrying it and canned and contagious for for years before they had any realisation of this and so you do have this you know world wide spread aren't these diseases these hemorrhagic fever diseases because the from the time of infection of the time of death can be as little as a week aren't they quite self limiting doesn't this reduce dramatically the probability or even the possibility that these could become world wide epidemics or pandemics. i think not. it's correct that these people become. very sick and they they can die within a week or so. but still before they become very sick they can be cared for by fami

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