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Author Hatch, Steven, 1969- author.

Title Inferno : a doctor's Ebola story / Steven Hatch, M.D.

Publication Info. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2017.
©2017

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Location Call No. Status
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  609 HATCH    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  BIOGRAPHY HATCH    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  362.1969 HAT    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  362.1969 HAT    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  614.58 HATCH    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  614.57 HAT    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  614.588 HAT    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  614.588 HATCH    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  614.57 HAT    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  614.588 HATCH    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description viii, 303 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Summary "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. "-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-294) and index.
Contents The Vestibule -- Preparing for the End of the World -- The Blue World -- Inferno -- The Unbearable Cry -- Behold, a Pale Horse -- Night -- Purgatory -- Mawah.
Summary A doctor from Massachusetts shares his first-hand experience in helping fight the Ebola epidemic that hit Liberia in 2013, describing how both his small hospital and the country tried to contain the disease.
Subject Hatch, Steven, 1969- -- Health.
Ebola virus disease -- Africa, West.
Physicians -- Massachusetts -- Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Medical.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disasters & Disaster Relief.
Genre/Form Autobiographies.
ISBN 9781250085139 (hardcover)
1250085136 (hardcover)
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