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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9780970337115 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0970337116 Label: Meadowlark Springs Production Manufacturer: Meadowlark Springs Production Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 396 Publication Date: December 01, 2001 Publisher: Meadowlark Springs Production Studio: Meadowlark Springs Production Related Items:
Editorial Review: Book Description: At a Catholic Mission in Yambuku, an oasis of peace and efficiency in northern Congo's vast jungle forests, Mabalo Lokela, a teacher, receives an anti-malarial shot for a raging fever and headache. Sister Lucie, a Flemish nursing sister, swishes out a syringe with a weak disinfectant. The next patients are injected with the same syringe and the sick man's virus spreads. Lokela was the first Congolese victim of a new African hemorrhagic disease that became known as Ebola fever. When Sister Lucie dies a few days later, panic erupts and hospitalized patients flee into the forest. With the convent connected to the outside world by a single primitive radio, the mission nuns can only pray and wonder if anyone will act on their cries for help. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - A Fascinating PerspectiveTo be truthful, I was a bit disappointed when the author admitted at the beginning of the book that this was a novel. I had expected more technical information. However, the book was a very good read and gave an interesting perspective of the first Ebola outbreak from the view of the people directly involved - the villagers and the Catholic missionaries. Dr. Close bases this book on fact, but for the sake of interest, combined some characters and filled in some holes in the story with what he ... Read More Rating:  - Wow! Excellent BookThis is a really good book. It keeps you coming back for more without being too intense. It nicely describes the horrible nature of the epidemic without too many of the horrific details. By the end I felt like I knew the characters. This is a really good, really well written book. Rating: - An eloquent, gripping, chilling accountEbola hemorrhagic fever is a deadly virus currently spreading from Gabon to the Republic of the Congo. Unfortunately, it today's world of international transportation and air travel, Ebola outbreaks offer very real risks of being spread quickly to virtually any part of the world (including the United States) is just a matter of hours. William Close draws upon his more than 16 years in Africa (he became personal physician to the President of Congo and chief doctor to the Congolese Army) and his expertise ... Read More Rating: - Book that is OkayThis book gives an enteresting view on how the disease Ebola has effected African people. The best part of the book is how the virus kills just about everyone in the book. It gives it a dramatic type feeling and the reader gets a better perspeckive on the Ebola Viruse. It rocks the rolls. 
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