6/9/2023 0 Comments Inferno by Steven Hatch![]() ![]() 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. 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. 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. Hatch had mentored and served with were dead or barely clinging to life, and Ebola had become a world health emergency. Six months later, several of the physicians Dr. Steven Hatch first came to Liberia in November 2013, to work at a hospital in Monrovia. ![]()
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