A post by Emmanuel Adu-Gyamfi:
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Not many children grow up wanting to become virologists. However, as a sixth grader, I became fascinated with the Ebola virus after hearing, through BBC news, of the horrific nature of the Ebola virus and the havoc it wreaks on its victims. My horror soon turned to curiosity which triggered my decade and a half-long interest in studying viruses. After college, I gained admission to go to one of the handful of schools with a lab committed to studying the Ebola virus and worked with inactive copies of the virus for five years, publishing several times on the Ebola virus...[continue reading]
