Look on the bright side....

Coulda been worse, coulda been Ebola, your friend on the boat woulda started bleeding out everywhere and turned into a pile of mush before your very eyes. You’d be next.

"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744