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Heroic in word and deed
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Red Zone: Cuba and the Battle against Ebola in West Africa
by Enrique Ubieta Gomez
(Pathfinder Press, £15)
THE word “heroes” is regularly used and abused, but never has it been more apt than when describing the Cuban volunteer doctors, nurses, technicians and public health specialists who responded to an international call for help in the fight against Ebola.
In what was described by some of the volunteers as a “suicidal mission,” 300 were selected out of the 12,000 who volunteered to go in 2014 to Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. In a matter of weeks, a brigade of 256 headed out after intensive training in Cuba.
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