Contents

Cast of Characters

Preface

Introduction

  1    Emile

  2    A Mysterious Killer

  3    Into the Fight

  4    A Turning Point

  5    Roaring Back

  6    Death of a Hero

  7    Lagos

  8    The Samaritans

  9    A Call for Help

10    70–30

Photo Section

11    Darkest Days

12    Deployment

13    Dallas

14    The Ebola Czar

15    Panic and Quarantine

16    The Obama Phones

17    The Burial Teams

18    A Waning Tide

19    Medicine without Borders

20    The Next Outbreak

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index