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Hot Zone The book “The Hot Zone” written by Richard Preston is a true story which describes a highly infections, deadly virus from the central rain forest in Africa. The disease killed 90% of its victims and modern medicine was defenseless against it. The virus suddenly appears in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. In 1989, a monkey-importing company with a primate quarantine unit in Reston, Virginia noticed that the monkeys were dying off at an alarming rate and with unusual symptoms. When word got out that the virus was Ebola, all hell broke loose. The U.S. Army was put in charge of the mess. A secret military SWAT team of soldiers and scientists were sent in to stop the outbreak of the exotic “hot” virus. The job was complicated and very hazardous. Therefore, all involved wore special biological space suits. The job was to enter the monkey house or the hot zone, kill each monkey, and retrieve tissue samples. The operation had to be conducted in secret so virus, viruses, hot, preston, out, job, human, ebola, zone, very, secret, scientists, reston, race, monkey, lethal, exotic, deadly, book, body, away, although, written, worldwide, wore, word, washington, visited, virginia, victims, unusual, united, unit, turned