Medical people like this are real heroes:
Sheik Umar Khan, the doctor leading anti-Ebola efforts in Sierra Leone—one of three Western African countries that have been hit by an outbreak—has contracted the virus himself, Reuters reports.
[…] “I am afraid for my life, I must say, because I cherish my life,” Khan said in an interview before he developed symptoms of infection. Three nurses at the facility where he worked have died in the last week.