Sitting in the lobby café of the Radisson Blu Hotel at Lumley Beach in Freetown, Sierra Leone on Friday night I look down at my right leg and was horror struck…is that Ebola?             My right leg was a quarter covered by what looked like a red rash, an early sign of Ebola virus disease - EVD to those in the know. I panicked for thirty seconds. Oh my God, it couldn’t be. I had been so careful. Sure I had been into an Ebola treatment unit (ETU) six days earlier, and that was within the incubation period, but I was careful not to touch anyone and I had only gone into the administrative area. A senior official from the ministry of health was castigating a doctor for some apparently embarrassing publicity the government had received. I was surprised to see she was wearing open-toed shoes. At least I wasn’t that careless. So how could this have happened? On closer inspection it ...