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This 5 page report discusses the 'documentary novel' of the first outbreak of Ebola that killed hundreds in Zaire in 1976. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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the American physician who lived in Zaire for sixteen years, and who worked desperately to contain the first outbreak of the virus in 1976. For nearly twenty years, he was
haunted by the images in his memory from witnessing the horrifying and unknown disease firsthand. Close was compelled to tell the story of the people he knew and who were
killed by the disease. Although the book does not have the fast pace of a Robin Cook or Michael Crichton novel or the Dustin
Hoffman movie "Outbreak," it is still fascinating in its presentation of the terror caused by an unknown viral killer. The story centers on a Catholic mission in Yambuku, a remote
area of Zaire, in 1976. A local teacher visits the missions clinic with a raging fever. Sister Lucie, a Flemish nun and nurse, gives him a shot of an
anti-malarial drug but within days, the teacher is dead. Soon after, others become ill and die. Less than three weeks later, Sister Lucie, too, is dead. Panic erupts and
the villagers try to run from the killing disease but the roads leading out of Yambuku are blocked and the dying are turned away. The European and Zairian medical
personnel and nuns are left behind waiting and praying for help from the outside world while trying to deal with the overpowering hemorrhagic viral fever, that was proving to be
a rapidly-moving disease that devastated the bodys organs, tissues and cells, also revealing itself with blood often being released through the nose, ears, mouth and even eyes.
The nuns are the most heart-rending of the characters with their suffering in the face of this deadly virus. And the rituals of
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