A year later, biocontainment unit staff reflect on Ebola outbreak that put Nebraska Medical Center..

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A year later, biocontainment unit staff reflect on Ebola outbreak that put Nebraska Medical Center on the map

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BRENDAN SULLIVAN / THE WORLD-HERALD
Dr. Phil Smith, the Nebraska Medical Center’s biocontainment unit medical director who was among those who cared for patients with the Ebola virus, reminisces Tuesday in the room where those patients were treated, starting nearly a year ago when Dr. Rick Sacra arrived on Sept. 5.

Posted: Wednesday, September 2, 2015 12:30 am | Updated: 11:25 am, Wed Sep 2, 2015.
By Alia Conley / World-Herald staff writer

Standing in the room next to the bed where three consecutive patients with Ebola lay last year, Dr. Phil Smith referred to a quote from a Shakespeare play when talking about his biocontainment team.

“We few, we happy few, we band of brothers,” King Henry V says in the eponymous play.

“There’s a bond,” said Smith, medical director of the biocontainment unit at the Nebraska Medical Center. “The few of us are going to remember this for the rest of our lives.”

It wasn’t just a few people who successfully treated Dr. Rick Sacra and Ashoka Mukpo for Ebola and who furiously worked to try to save Dr. Martin Salia from the virus.

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http://www.livewellnebraska.com/ebola/a-year-later-biocontainment-unit-staff-reflect-on-ebola-outbreak/article_d69dbf2b-cf00-51fd-baf6-eb70a088bdba.html