Protected: Iguanas Galore

Another virus. Another pandemic. Countries on opposite sides of an ideological divide cooperate to rid the world of a disease.

Life in a jungle hut was Bee’s romanticized dream. But while her husband helps eradicate smallpox, her naïveté about foreign aid and life in international service is dismantled. 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 pushes danger, isolation and life on vigil to the back of her mind. She learns that while diseases can influence power and politics, world powers often use disease fighters to do the same. But the global battle to eradicate smallpox succeeds, and Bee knows her family played its part.

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

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