Beyond the Book: Background information when reading The Lassa Ward

Name: The Lassa Ward
Rating: 4.3 (4 reviews)
Author: Dr. Ross Donaldson MD, MPH
ISBN: 9780312377007

The Lassa Ward

One Man’s Fight Against One of the World’s Deadliest Diseases

by Dr. Ross Donaldson MD, MPH

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May 12, 2009, 288 pages

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Jul 2010, 288 pages

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Jo Perry
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For a short history of Sierra Leone, Africa, see the sidebar to Ancestor Stones, by Aminatta Forna.

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