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March Madness

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This has been a crazy month.  I can hardly believe that April starts next week. It's been a month of ups and downs and this little graphic describes it best... The month started out with the return of Lassa Fever to our region of West Africa.  At first we had only a couple of patients in our hospital that had come from neighbouring countries.  Let me just say that our medical team, having experienced Lassa Fever last year, was prepared. They had guidelines all set out for what we needed to do, as a team, to avoid contracting it as best we could. Lassa fever is a contagious illness that is passed through bodily fluids. It doesn't often kill the person who gets it, but it can and it has and it did. So once it was confirmed that we did indeed have a Lassa case in the hospital, we were required to follow some simple guidelines including taking our temperatures, avoiding public places and washing with bleach water upon entering our homes.  The hospital shut down any non-ess