Protected: Iguanas Galore

Life in a jungle hut was Bee’s romanticized dream. But while her husband helps eradicate smallpox, she deals with the dismantling of her naïveté about foreign aid and life in international service. Lessons come from tribal pogroms, a princess isolated behind the mud walls of a medieval palace, and a brutal dictator who burns all boats to prevent escape. Bee experiences isolation and a life lived on vigil. In the end, she learns that while diseases can influence power and politics, world powers often use disease fighters to do the same.

Read more about the author of the forthcoming memoir, working title: Vaccines & Bayonets: Fighting Smallpox in Africa amid Tribalism, Terror and the Cold War.

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