One of my e-lerts is about Marburg hemorrhagic fever. I have been using this event to demonstrate to students what an e-lert is, and why a reporter would set one up. In case any of you who heard me describe the horrors of Marburg are reading, here is an account that lays out the symptoms, the toll so far, and provides some public health kind of framing for the story.The Globe and Mail: No end in sight for Marburg toll: "Marburg is a cousin of the Ebola virus. Both are horrific, because once hemorrhaging begins, an infected person can bleed from the lips, eyes and rectum, and their vital organs dissolve. (Victims, however, do not bleed to death. Rather, they die of shock as the massive loss of fluids causes their blood pressure to drop precipitously.)"