Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come

by Richard Preston

who came into a village was checked beforehand,” Wolz said. “They were checking who was coming into the village, who was sick.” Villagers inspected Wolz and her driver for symptoms and made them wash their hands in chlorine before they were allowed into a village. At one village, Wolz and her driver were told they couldn’t go in at all, because the village had isolated itself from the world. “It was like something out of the past,” Wolz said. “They weren’t going to burials, they stopped kissing each other, they weren’t touching each other. Behavior changes.” “This is how all outbreaks end,” Armand Sprecher, the Doctors’ official in Brussels, said. “It’s always a change in behavior. Ebola outbreaks end when people decide they’re going to end.”