The Hot Zone by Richard Preston is a fascinating book that goes through various dangerous viral biological outbreaks occurring mainly between the 1970s and the 1980s. The Hot Zone is not a fictitious work, rather, it is documentation of a series of dangerous virus outbreaks…
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Richard Preston
South Africa, United States
English
Non-fiction
1994
Richard Preston, Lieutenant Colonel Nancy Jaax, Lieutenant Colonel Gerald (Jerry) Jaax, Eugene (Gene) Johnson, Charles Monet, Colonel Clarence James Peters (C. J.), Peter Jahrling, Thomas Geisbert, Dan Dalgard, Dr. Joseph B. McCormick, Dr. Frederick Murphy, Dr. Karl Johnson, Mayinga N., Peter Cardinal, Major General Philip K. Russell, Bill Volt
The book is based on a terrifying true story of Ebola virus, its fallout, and why it's so deadly and contagious.