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Radio 5 Live,2 mins

Ebola survivor: 'It felt like the worst imaginable flu'

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A US missionary doctor has told of how he contracted and survived Ebola in 1972. Tom Cairns fell "acutely ill" after doing an autopsy on an infected body in Zaire. He said the disease felt like the "worst imaginable influenza" and it was a "miracle" he survived. This clip is originally from Drive on Thursday 7th August 2014.

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