Chapter One It was exactly half past nine pm Geneva time when Professor Brutch Bulchi looked at his oversized wooden wall clock-antique bleu. He knew it was time for the late BBC news bulletin. He changed the channel. Brutch adjusted himself comfortably on his couch to listen to the updates on the heart-breaking news currently being broadcast. “It’s been three months now since the outbreak began in the region of Middle Africa.” A map showing the Middle Africa region popped out on the TV screen as the reporter continued, “Over the past three months of the outbreak, the local health authorities of all those affected countries have reported, ‘No decline but a surge in the number of new cases.’ The WHO itself through its connecting centre in the region has recorded more than five hundred dea