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Book Review of Ebola: a Documentary Novel of Its First Explosion

Ebola: a Documentary Novel of Its First Explosion
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At a Catholic mission in Yambuku, a remote area of Zaire, Mavalo Lokela, a local teacher visits the clinic with a raging fever. Sister Lucie, a Flemish num 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......