The Lassa Ward

Ross Donaldson was an idealistic young medical student who gave up his comfortable life in the States to venture into Sierra Leone a country ravaged by fighting and plagued by conflict streaming across the border from neighboring Liberia. In a hospital ward with meager supplies Ross is in a race against time to find a way to care for patients afflicted with Lassa fever a deadly and highly contagious hemorrhagic illness similar to Ebola. Forced to confront his own fears he stands alone to make life-and-death decisions in the face of a never-ending onslaught of the sick. Ultimately he finds himself not only fighting for the lives of others but also for his own. The Lassa Ward is the memoir of a young man studying to be a physician while making his way through a land where a battle against one of the world''s deadliest diseases matches a struggle for human rights and decency.