Inferno : a doctor's ebola story / Steven Hatch, M.D.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2017Edition: First editionDescription: viii, 303 pages ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781250085139
- 362.1969/20092Â BÂ 23
- RC140.5Â .H38 2017
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Book | Independence Public Library Adult Non-Fiction | Independence Public Library | Adult Books | 362.19 HATCH (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 36123001599289 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-294) and index.
"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 ... 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"--
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