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Ebola's Curse: 2013-2016 Outbreak in West Africa is about
hemorrhagic fever viruses, especially Ebola, its initial origin in
central Africa 1976, its unprecedented appearance in West Africa in
2013. The book records in sequence and detective style how the
initial outbreak of Ebola from the index case in rural Guinea
traveled to Sierra Leone, the work and fate of those working in the
Kenema Government Hospital (KGH) isolation ward in Sierra Leone.
The book provides vignettes of the three main players involved with
Ebola at KGH, Sheik Khan, Pardis Sabeti, and Robert Garry. Khan was
the head of the unit, declared a national hero by his Sierra Leone
government. He died fighting Ebola and was/is recognized in the USA
by American societies by awards created for his historic work and
death. Pardis Sabeti, a geneticist from Harvard and Broad MIT
Institute, who was honored as a "Scientist of the Year" by Time
Magazine and the Smithsonian Institute. Robert Garry, head of the
operation to fight hemorrhagic fevers and Ebola, shuttled between
Tulane University, KGH, and The White House to make aware through
the press and others the dilemma and tragedy that was unfolding,
and the need to obtain additional medical and health care support
and supplies. Sabeti and Garry currently work with Oldstone on
Ebola at KGH and thus personal communication and knowledge was/is
available to the author for the book.
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