Inferno, Dr. Steven Hatch
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Inferno, Dr. Steven Hatch
Language
eng
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Form of composition
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Format of music
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Literary text for sound recordings
autobiography
Main title
Inferno
Music parts
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Oclc number
971282326
Responsibility statement
Dr. Steven Hatch
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 also explains the science of Ebola: how it is transmitted and spreads so quickly. And as Dr. Hatch notes, while Ebola is now under control, it will inevitably reemerge as will other plagues, notably the Zika virus, which the World Health Organization has declared a public health emergency."--, Provided by publisher
Target audience
adult
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