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The Hot Zone

Richard Preston

ISBN

Africa Consumer Health Contagious Diseases Diseases - Contagious Ebola virus disease Ebola virus disease - Africa Ebola virus disease - Virginia - Reston Forensic Medicine Health & Fitness Infectious Diseases Life Sciences Medical Primates as laboratory animals Primatology Public Health Research & Methodology Reston Science Virginia Zoology

PublisherAnchor Books
PublishedApr 15, 1995
SUMMARY: A highly infectious, deadly virus from the central African rain forest suddenly appears in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. There is no cure. In a few days 90 percent of its victims are dead. A secret military SWAT team of soldiers and scientists is mobilized to stop the outbreak of this exotic "hot" virus. The Hot Zone tells this dramatic story, giving a hair-raising account of theappearance of rare and lethal viruses and their "crashes" into the human race. Shocking, frightening, and impossible to ignore, The Hot Zone proves that truth really is scarier than fiction.