![]() The virus transformed the hospital at Maridi into a morgue. I won’t quote it in full, but here is some of it: One particular account of an Ebola Sudan outbreak is seared on my brain. ![]() The first part of the book describes the outbreaks in nightmarish detail. The experienced researchers and medical personnel quoted in the book readily and repeatedly state that Ebola terrifies them. Preston’s book doesn’t do anything to dispel that conclusion. When I read about the symptoms in the newspaper, I thought it sounded like one of the worst ways that you could die. I had first heard about the Ebola virus in the late 1990’s, when I was in high school. The Hot Zone closely follows the government’s response to the emergency. They are alarmed when they realize that the monkeys seem to be infected with a virus very much like Ebola Zaire. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) are contacted. When monkeys start dying mysteriously in a Reston, Virginia quarantine unit for a laboratory products company in 1989, researchers from the U.S. ![]() ![]() Ebola Zaire kills nine out of ten people infected with it. ![]() These viruses have horrifying effects on the human body, and scarily high kill rate. In a nutshell: The Hot Zone first describes a family of ‘thread’ viruses which include Marburg, Ebola Sudan and Ebola Zaire. Recommended by: Alyce of At Home With Books ![]()
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