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Lewis Nawa soon faded into insignificance now that chaos had seized the city. The little hospital room he was occupying for the fourth consecutive day was no longer the centre of anyone’s attention. It seemed a rare opportunity had come Lewis’s way to become an urban legend; the man who survived the very disease he had brought to the city, while so many others had perished. And yet it was not to be. Lewis’s story met with little enthusiasm from the people who happened to recognise him amidst the chaos outside, as the battle raged on between life and death – a battle he had started and then escaped. Yet even Lewis wasn’t entirely safe: the virus may have released him this time, but there was nothing to say it wouldn’t return at any moment.
Were this not the time of Ebola, Lewis’s lif
