Lassa Fever!

By Rich Schaffer (SIMAIR pilot)

 

This story begins in a tiny village south of Maiduguri not far from the Chad border. It is Sunday, and about three in the morning, 19 January 1969, Laura Wine is awakened by a sharp rapping at her door. As Miss Wine gets out of bed, her aching back is worse than usual, but she shrugs that off … almost 70 now, what are you to expect with the long hard workload she was carrying. She lights the lantern and gets dressed, picks up her walking stick, and shuffles off into the hot and still African night to the small bush hospital. In the obstetric ward a village woman is writhing in her final labor pains, her body glistening with sweat. The Nigerian night nurse speaks soothingly to her as she waits for Laura Wine to arrive.

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