Fevers, feuds, and diamonds: Ebola and the ravages of history

Preface: The caregiver's disease --

Part I: Ebola hits home. The twenty-fifth epidemic? --

Tough calls --

Ibrahim's second chance --

The two ordeals of Yabom --

Interlude I: Down the rabbit hole --

Part II: Fevers, feuds, and diamonds. The upper Guinea coast and the world the slaves made -- The great scramble and the rise of the Pasteurians --

A world at war: The making of a clinical desert --

Things fall apart: Civil war and its aftermath --

Interlude II: The crisis caravan --

Part III: Death and life after Ebola. How Ebola kills: An exercise in social medicine --

The silly things and the fever next time --

Epilogue: The color of COVID.