Epidemic: Ebola and the Global Scramble to Prevent the Next Killer Outbreak
By Reid Wilson
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A global health catastrophe narrowly averted. A world unprepared for another outbreak.
In December 2013, a young boy in a tiny West African village contracted the deadly Ebola virus. The virus spread to his relatives, then to neighboring communities, then across international borders. The world’s first urban Ebola outbreak quickly overwhelmed the global health system and threatened to kill millions.
As we are currently seeing, in an increasingly interconnected world in which everyone is one or two flights away from New York or London or Beijing, a localized epidemic has become a pandemic. Ebola’s spread through West Africa to Nigeria, the United Kingdom and the United States sounded global alarms that the next killer outbreak is right around the corner—and that the world is woefully unprepared to combat a new deadly disease.
From the poorest villages of rural West Africa to the Oval Office itself, this book tells the story of a deadly virus that spun wildly out of control—and reveals the truth about how close the world came to a catastrophic global pandemic. It is a story that serves as a cautionary tale for the COVID-19 epidemic currently spreading throughout the world.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Wilson's Epidemic is more informative and less dramatized than other Ebola books. Some of the takeaway sections about poor government responses to epidemics certainly hit close to home these days though.