"Hatch packs a wealth of knowledge into the book...poignant." -Associated Press
Dr. Steven Hatch?? an infectious disease specialist?? first came to Liberia in November 2013 to work at a hospital in Monrovia. Six months later?? several of the physicians he had served with were dead or unable to work?? and Ebola had become a world health emergency. Inferno is his account of the epidemic that nearly consumed a nation?? as well as its deeper origins.
Hatch returned with the aid organization International Medical Corps to help establish an Ebola Treatment Unit. Alongside a devoted staff of expats and Liberians in a hastily constructed facility nestled into the jungle?? Hatch witnessed the unit's physicians?? nurses?? o