Inferno
Subtitle: a doctor's Ebola story
By: Steven Hatch, M.D.
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9781250085139
Subjects: Physicians; Health; Biography; Ebola virus disease
Description: "Dr. Steven Hatch first came to Liberia in November 2013, to work at a hospital in Monrovia. Six months later, several of the physicians Dr. Hatch had mentored and served with were dead or barely clinging to life, and Ebola had become a world health emergency. Hundreds of victims perished each week; whole families were destroyed in a matter of days; so many died so quickly that the culturally taboo practice of cremation had to be instituted to dispose of the bodies. With little help from the international community and a population ravaged by disease and fear, the war-torn African nation was simply unprepared to deal with the catastrophe. A physician's memoir about the ravages of a terrible disease and the small hospital that fought to contain it, Inferno is also an explanation of the science and biology of Ebola : how it is transmitted and spreads with such ferocity. And as Dr. Hatch notes, while Ebola is temporarily under control, it will inevitably re-emerge-as will other plagues, notably the Zika virus, which the World Health Organization has declared a public health emergency. Inferno is a glimpse into the white-hot center of a crisis that will come again. "--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-294) and index.
Table of contents: title: The Vestibule; title: Preparing for the End of the World; title: The Blue World; title: Inferno; title: The Unbearable Cry; title: Behold, a Pale Horse; title: Night; title: Purgatory; title: Mawah.