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