SEATTLE — More than a week after returning from Sierra Leone, Seattle trauma nurse Karin Huster says she’s just now stopped dreaming about Ebola.
During the five weeks she spent this fall in the northern district of Port Loko, the area with the highest rate of transmission of the raging virus, the 47-year-old mother of two spent her days caring for the sick and dying — and her nights obsessing about how to do better.
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