The Ebola Epidemic: The Fight, the Future

by Connie Goldsmith

An ordinary blue thermos holding blood samples from a sick nun in Zaire reached Belgium's Institute of Tropical Medicine in September 1976. From the samples, researchers discovered a new virus, which they named the Ebola virus after a river in Central Africa. The virus killed two hundred eighty people before it seemingly disappeared into the jungle. No one suspected the virus would erupt in West Africa nearly four decades later to cause an unprecedented...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1467792446
• ISBN13: 9781467792448
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books (Tm)
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 11 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Grade 6 to Postsecondary