The_Hot_Zone

The Hot Zone The Hot Zone Just like a Hollywood movie, Richard Preston’s book The Hot Zone tells a story of an almost viral outbreak in suburban Washington, D.C.. Unfortunately, unlike a movie made for entertainment, The Hot Zone recalls the events that led to Americas encounter with the Ebola virus. Richard Preston takes you back to the origins of the virus to give you some history, and to show just how devastating the virus is. The viruses he tells about are called Marburg and Ebola. Marburg the first of the viruses first appeared in 1967, in a vaccine factory in Marburg, Germany. Marburg virus killed seven people, which was a quarter of those infected. Next came the Ebola outbreak of Sudan in 1976. Ebola Sudan spread rapidly from village to village, killing half of its victims. Then two months later, an even deadlier strain of Ebola hit Zaire, erupting simultaneously in some 50 villages, killing nine out of ten people it infected. His mastery of description is used throughout the book to explain the devastation a person goes through once infected with one of these deadly viruses. He tells specific stories that take make you feel like virus, ebola, zone, out, hot, viruses, preston, monkeys, marburg, first, while, turned, took, tells, right, research, people, one, monkey, make, infected, encounter, blood, army, area, about, washington, village, today, throughout, through, takes, take, sudan, strain