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Loading... Inferno: A Doctor's Ebola Storyby Steven Hatch
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. A great job of humanizing the disease. The victims were the main characters, not Ebola, as in many other books. A bit too much history and politics of the region, but I see where it was necessary. Not what I was looking for in regards to the story, however. Everything else was done thoughtfully an with dignity. ( ) This up-close and personal account of the 2014 Ebola outbreak provides intriguing new (to me) information about the pathology of the disease and the ways in which it affects even those whom it doesn't infect. Dr. Hatch's occasional injections of humor, however, weren't enough to keep the book from dragging, at times, and there were too many people introduced for this reader to feel connected to any of them. no reviews | add a review
"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. "-- No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)362.1969Social sciences Social problems and services; associations Social problems of & services to groups of people People with physical illnesses Services to people with specific conditions Diseases Other diseasesLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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