{"product_id":"9781250085139","title":"Inferno: A Doctor's Ebola Story","description":"\u003cp\u003eDr. 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA physician’s memoir about the ravages of a terrible disease and the small hospital that fought to contain it, \u003ci\u003eInferno \u003c\/i\u003eis 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. \u003ci\u003eInferno\u003c\/i\u003e is a glimpse into the white-hot center of a crisis that will come again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47030285172976,"sku":"9781250085139","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781250085139_p0.jpg?v=1763702004","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781250085139","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}