Dr. Steven Hatch 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. 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, this book is also an explanation of the science and biology of Ebola---how it is transmitted and spread with such ferocity. 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.
