I would have to agree that I didn’t know much about Ebola before reading this book, same as you, but I really enjoy the stories and every time I read I don’t want to put the book down. It is just full of compelling stories that grab my attention every time. When Quammen is explaining just how dangerous and mystery this disease is it grabbed my attention because I knew that I didn’t know much about it, but I figured that the scientist had to have known more, right? Wrong. Of course, they know more than we do but it is still just as confusing now as it was in 1976. The fact that it is spilled over from animals who are such an intricate part of most people’s everyday life is something that affected me as well.