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BYLINE: PAUL HARASIM, REVIEW-JOURNAL
As Dr. Benjamin Ip of Las Vegas paused Wednesday during another 16-hour workday in Africa, he remembered an Angolan man he treated who was suspected of dying of the Marburg virus, which causes its victims to bleed to death from every orifice and organ.
"He was covered in his feces and vomit," Ip said during a long-distance cell phone call. "It is a terrible way to die and a very sad thing to see."
Ip, 38, is part of a Doctors Without Borders team that is trying to contain the spread of the world's largest outbreak of the hemorrhagic fever, a close relative of the better-known and more widely feared, Ebola virus. Few infections are as deadly.
In the Angolan capital of Luanda, a densely populated area of 4 million with an…