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Title: The Hot Zone : A Terrifying True Story by Richard Preston ISBN: 0-385-47956-5 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 20 July, 1995 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.37 (366 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Some Hot Stuff
Comment: This was an interesting account of a biological incident at a monkey house near Washington DC, along with plenty of background information about the Marburg and Ebola viruses. I didn't mind the redundancy about which others have complained; the repetition of some of the information about viral functions prompted retention, along with stirring the imagination as to the effects of a killer virus.
After reading the book, I performed some web searches an found several sites advertising hiking excursions to Mt. Elgon's Kitum Cave in Africa, which is believed to be he home of the Ebola/Marburg strains, though it's presently unknown which animal is the natural host. Let me tell you, if you are sufficiently insane to visit Kitum Cave after reading The Hot Zone, then you are living proof of Darwin In Action.
I liked the author's analogy about fatal viruses, such as Ebola and HIV, acting at the Earth's own antibodies, protecting the environment from encroachment by humans in places where the Earth doesn't want humans to be fiddling with things. Invasions of the deep rain forests and encounters with fatal biological agents therein are warnings for humans to stay away.
Have everyone in your family read The Hot Zone, so that next time someone gets sick you will have all sorts of terminology to throw around the dinner table -- extreme amplification, crash-and-bleed-out and other delightful descriptions about the effects of disease on humans. Enjoy.
Rating: 5
Summary: Terrifying and True
Comment: The true story of an Ebola outbreak in Virginia. This is an outstanding book that traces some of the history of the Ebola and Marburg virus's and their emergence in the world, what let up to the outbreak in Virginia and what response the military and Center For Disease Control had.
The writer does a wonderful job painting the characters that were involved in the outbreak in Virginia from the military and the Center for Disease Control. He shows how the major players scrambled to identify the unkown virus and their reactions when they first realized what they had. A new strain of Ebola. Only the fourth type of filovirus, the most dangerous in the world. Read as they tried to figure out if this virus was airborne or not. You can feel the impending doom.
The book is frightening as it describes the virus's and how they kill. How they multiply and move among hosts. This book is not for the faint of heart. The descriptions are graphic and can turn your stomach if you actually try to imagine the thought of it. It leaves you with the realizations that a virus on the level of Ebola can spread across the globe in a matter of 24 to 48 hours and within 12 days people will be dying. People will be dying fast as Ebola kills 90% of the people that become infected. This book gets you to thinking that the ultimate end of the human race will not be the nuclear bomb, as once feared, but a virus, a level 4 biohazard.
This book kept me rivetted, I could not put it down. The fact that it was true made it that much more intense and frightening. This book should be read by everyone.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Book
Comment: This was a great book by a great author... I first read this book in 1996 at my dads house and I was scared of Ebola for 5 years after that... So as you can see it is a very realistic and good story that scared me a lot!
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Title: The Demon in the Freezer by RICHARD PRESTON ISBN: 0345466632 Publisher: Fawcett Pub. Date: 26 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Cobra Event by Richard Preston ISBN: 0345409973 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance by Laurie Garrett ISBN: 0140250913 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1995 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Virus X : Tracking the New Killer Plagues by Frank Ryan ISBN: 0316763063 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 23 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World--Told from Inside by the Man Who Ran It by Ken Alibek, Stephen Handelman ISBN: 0385334966 Publisher: Delta Pub. Date: 11 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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