A doctor's Ebola memoir is all too timely with a new outbreak in Uganda
Dr. Benjamin Black talks about Belly Woman: Birth, Blood and Ebola — the inside story of what it was like to face a terrifying epidemic in West Africa.
Two young orphans inspired Dr. Benjamin Black to write a book about his experiences during the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone.
The British obstetrician/gynecologist knew the two boys, aged 8 and 9, for less than a day. When he met them, one was barely able to sip some fluid; the other was in a coma. They came from a village decimated by Ebola.
Their parents and relatives were dead.
A day after Black met them, the boys, too, died. He memorized their faces, vowed to remember them — and wrote a book with them in mind.
That book, is the inside story of what it was like to face a terrifying epidemic in West Africa that, in two and a half years, resulted in
