Gripping, Frightful Non-Fiction

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	• The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story Richard Preston Anchor, 1999 - 352 pages average customer review:based on 472 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Ebola

This book was scary, disgusting, detailed, and I couldn't put it down. It will keep you reaching for a bottle of hand sanitizer.
As with the other Richard Preston books, it starts with a gruesome case of the disease that it is about. (I made the mistake of reading the first few chapters before lunch.) Then, it talks about the history of Ebola, then it describes a new strain of Ebola that was in a monkey research faculty.
WARNING: DO NOT EAT SPAGHETTI WITH RED SAUCE AFTER READING THIS BOOK. YOU WILL REGRET IT.
I definitely recommend this book to unsqueamish people.

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Gripping, Frightful Non-Fiction

This is a gripping story about the spread of emerging deadly viruses - specifically Ebola. Now we can add to our worries thoughts of deadly Ebola viruses hopping the globe via jet travel. Author Robert Preston keeps readers glued to these pages with his description of Ebola outbreaks in Africa. Victims arrived at hospitals vomiting blood, then convulsing, losing consciousness, and in most cases soon expiring - though about 20 percent recovered fully. We see how one strain of Ebola ended up in Virginia (USA) via jet travel, where it was discovered and quarantined. Perhaps nervous readers should remember that HIV/AIDS has to this date been more destructive, as was influenza to Native populations in the Caribbean region shortly after Columbus arrived.

This book is readable, gripping, and sensational; it leaves many readers wanting more complex scientific information about viruses. A compelling read, but hardly for the squeamish.

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Awesome

This book is awesome and a really scary scenario. I read it in one sitting and couldn't put it down. This virus makes all others pale in comparison. Can't wait to see the movie.

Great book

Great book i read in high school. i just picked it up to re-live this horror again.

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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 the
appearance 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.

From the Paperback edition.

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