Inferno: A Doctor's Ebola Story

Synopsis

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. -- Introduction: The Abandonment Of Unwholesome Thoughts -- The Vestibule -- Preparing For The End Of The World -- The Blue World -- Inferno -- The Unbearable Cry -- Behold, A Pale Horse -- Night -- Purgatory -- Mawah -- Epilogue: Sunset, Sunrise. Steven Hatch, M.d. Includes Bibliographical References (pages [289]-294) And Index.