![]() ![]() Only rarely, in fact, do Ebola patients bleed out, and the death rate need not come anywhere near 90%. That's an almost inevitable takeaway from reading Richard Preston's best-selling The Hot Zone ("you are almost certainly doomed" if you catch Ebola, Preston claimed) or watching movies based in viral sensationalism.Īnthropologist and physician Paul Farmer, based at Harvard Medical School, turns this view of Ebola on its head in his eye-opening, densely detailed, and riveting Fevers, Feuds and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History. ![]() ![]() Unless you're an infectious-disease expert, what might pop into your mind are phrases like "bleeding from the eyes and mouth," and "90% death rate," coupled with images of horrific contagion set in remote African villages. Suppose you're participating in one of those word-association tests, where someone gives you a word and you're to respond with the first things that enter your mind. ![]()
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