She contacts Public Health Scotland and is ignored and dismissed because of prior mental health issues and she is labelled as unstable and hysterical. Amanda realises that each of these men had visited the A&E two days earlier and were treated by the same nurse, either she is a murderer or there is something Very Bad happening indeed. Then another man is brought into A&E with similar symptoms. Amanda watches helplessly as this fit, young man dies in front of her. One of the junior doctors has given him paracetamol and sent bloods off for tests but his temperature is rising to dangerous levels and nothing they do brings it down. It is early November and Amanda, a Doctor in a busy A&E in Glasgow treats a man who was admitted a couple of hours earlier with flu.

The thing is, this virus only effects men, women are hosts but are not felled by the disease. Set in the year 2025 ,it is about a virus (or the Plague as it is referred to in the novel) which strikes very quickly indeed with two days of infection followed by a raging fever and certain death within hours. The End of Men was written before Coronavirus turned our lives upside down but it is weirdly prescient in some ways. In The End of Men, Christina Sweeney-Baird creates an unforgettable tale of loss, resilience and hope Through these women and others, we see the uncountable ways the absence of men has changed society, from the personal–the loss of husbands and sons–to the political–the changes in the workforce, fertility and the meaning of family. MacLean Catherine, a social historian determined to document the human stories behind the male plague intelligence analyst Dawn, tasked with helping the government forge a new society and Elizabeth, one of many scientists desperately working to develop a vaccine. What follows is the immersive account of the women who have been left to deal with the virus’s consequences, told through first-person narratives. The virus becomes a global pandemic–and a political one. By the time her warning is heeded, it is too late. Amanda MacLean reports this phenomenon, she is dismissed as hysterical.

The year is 2025, and a mysterious virus has broken out in Scotland–a lethal illness that seems to affect only men. Only men are affected by the virus only women have the power to save us all. I received a copy of this book from the publisher.

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