Books by Boris
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Ebola. Liberia--Undercover
Completed on the 10-year anniversary of Liberia's Ebola-Free declaration, this non-fiction narrative chronicles the six-month period when a 2014 outbreak became the deadliest Ebola epidemic in modern history. Drawing on accounts from over 70 front-line responders — from the U.S. Ambassador to ambulance crews, treatment unit nurses, and burial team members — it delivers a taut exposé of the chaotic field-level response. The author, an international health procurement specialist who arrived in Liberia alongside the first full-term MSF Medical Coordinator, offers personal glimpses of an epidemic that threatened to overwhelm Liberia and potentially reach a U.S. with fewer than 20 bio-contained beds. Though not a textbook, the book provides epidemiologists and public health professionals with vivid examples of mitigation strategies deployable before vaccines arrive.
The Merry Baker of Riga
Mix one American expatriate, "inherited" managers, Soviet-trained bakers, and a Danish baking instructor with an Irish accent. Blend in the collapse of the Soviet legal system, derelicts that heave bricks through windows for sport, and mafiya racketeers. Put all them together in a decrepit bakery plant, and you will have just a taste of what lies between the pages of Boris Zemtzov's charming travelogue. An American businessman with no roots in Latvia, Boris Zemtzov nonetheless decided to establish a Western-style bakery there in 1992, just after the collapse of the Soviet Union — and in doing so left a vivid chronicle of the historic 12-year transition between the Soviet and European Union membership periods.
Liberia Ebola Campaign Gallery
Thirty photographs and five videos from the front-line response to the 2014 epidemic — documenting the people, places, and moments behind the story.
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