When a terrible epidemic occurs, we all become equal before the virus. And even in our time, in the age of high technology and discoveries in medicine, the emergence of a new virus causes fear and panic... at least at the very beginning. We can't control everything around us, but we must know how viruses manifest themselves, how they reproduce, where their weak points are, and how we can protect ourselves. This book describes the history of the emergence and spread of the first Ebola virus, which had a mortality rate of up to 90%. . It is based on real events and tells how humanity fought against a previously unknown danger, what steps it took, and how it managed to unite in the face of the unknown. This dramatic story is an example of how vulnerable we still remain, even though several decades have passed since those events.