From the back cover....

At a Catholic mission in Yambuku,
a remote area of Zaire, Mabalo Lucie, a local teacher, visits the clinic with a raging fever. Sister Lucie, a Flemish nun and nurse,gives him a shot of anti-malarial drug, wipes off the syringe, and awaits her next patient. Within days, Mabolo is dead. Soon after, others become ill and die. Less than three weeks later, Sister Lucie,too,is dead. As panic erupts and the villagers flee from the sickness...as the roads leading out of Yambuku are blocked and the dying are turned away...as the single radio connecting the village to the outside world brings only bad news,the valiant nuns and medical personnel left behind at the mission can only pray and wonder: will the world ever hear their plea for help?



I found this book to be a quick read, pulled me in and I had to keep reading.
Scary!

Put in the mail today, it's on the way to bossmare.

Very good story about an Ebola outbreak. Thank goodness there are dedicated people out there to help contain and educate about disease.

reserved

Received 5/21/05 from Bossmare--thanks so much! After reading The Hot Zone, I can't wait to read this one! Thanks again Sue!

This was a pretty good book, but I was a little disappointed that it was a novelized version of what really happened. I had hoped to read nonfiction. However, I did enjoy the story.

RELEASE NOTES:

Just left it on a chair inside in the (interminable) waiting area.