The problem with unsanitary conditions. It makes me wonder how the heck you can make a clean room (for R&D for computers or researching ebola or whatever). How do you get something clean so you can clean something else? You never notice how much you touch your face and mouth until you are in a place where doing so without washing your hands with anti-bacterial soap and purified water could make you very ill (cholera has been bad this year - symptoms? your poop becomes rice water). I've been washing all of the plates and things I bought in a diluted bleach solution, but I only have so much drying space, so I have to do it in shifts. Also, I have cabinets, but they don't have any interior organization (like shelves), so you just have to stack everything, which is making me a crazy person.
What you are doing over there is so important for the well-being of us all. I'm sorry that Africa is the frontline for contagious diseases, but am glad that it isn't the U.S. If you, and people like you, were not over there fighting that fight, the U.S. might become the frontline. Sanitation continues to be one of the big issues even in our remote Alaskan villages. People seem to forget that before government got serious about sanitation thousands of Americans died from poor-sanitation-related illnesses.