An Ebola treatment center of Doctors Without Borders is the Ancient Rule updated with plastic. A hut made of palm fronds, placed apart from the village and stocked with water and food, was an ancient red zone. Smallpox victims were isolated in the red zone hut and were kept from having any contact with people in the village. There was no treatment for smallpox or for Ebola. You went into the red zone, you got food and water, and you either survived or you didn’t. After the survivors emerged from the hut, the hut was burned. This was on-site disposal of biohazardous corpses, the same thing the
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