An edition of The Lassa Ward: one man's fight against one of the world's deadliest diseases (2009)

The Lassa Ward

one man's fight against one of the world's deadliest diseases

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An edition of The Lassa Ward: one man's fight against one of the world's deadliest diseases (2009)

The Lassa Ward

one man's fight against one of the world's deadliest diseases

1st ed.

by

Ross Donaldson is one of just a few who have ventured into dark territory of a country ravaged by war to study one of the world's most deadly diseases. As an untried medical student studying the intersection of global health and communicable disease, Donaldson soon found himself in dangerous Sierra Leone, on the border of war-struck Liberia, where he struggled to control the spread of Lassa Fever. The words, "you know Lassa can kill you, don't you?" haunted him each day. With the country in complete upheaval and working conditions suffering, he is forced to make life-and-death decisions alone as a never-ending onslaught of contagious patients flood the hospital. Soon however, he is not only fighting for others but himself when he becomes afflicted with a life threatening disease. The Lassa Ward is more than just an adventure story about the making of a physician; it is a portrait of the Sierra Leone people and the human struggle of those risking their daily comforts and lives to aid them.

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St. Martin's Press
Language
English
Pages
270

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Subjects

Lassa fever, Biography, Physicians, Physicians, biography, Africa, biography

People

Ross Donaldson, Ross I. Donaldson

Places

Sierra Leone
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Cover of: The Lassa Ward
The Lassa Ward: one man's fight against one of the world's deadliest diseases
2009, St. Martin's Press
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Published in
New York
Genre
Biography.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
610.92, B
Library of Congress
RC152.5 .D66 2009, RC152.5.D66 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
270

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL22658264M
ISBN 10
0312377002
ISBN 13
9780312377007
LCCN
2008043923
OCLC/WorldCat
262885308
LibraryThing
8098367
Goodreads
6330442

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Work ID
OL13646823W

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