Inferno

a doctor's Ebola story

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Steven Hatch: Inferno (2017)

303 pages

English language

Published Nov. 13, 2017

ISBN:
978-1-250-08513-9
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OCLC Number:
947146032

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"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. …

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Subjects

  • Physicians
  • Health
  • Biography
  • Ebola virus disease

Places

  • Massachusetts
  • West Africa