Book Report: The Hot Zone By Richard Preston

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and there are no cures for these killers.
In 1976 Ebola climbed out of its primordial hiding place in the jungles
of Africa, and in two outbreaks in Zaire and Sudan wiped out six hundred people.
But the virus had never been seen outside of Africa and the consequences of
having the virus in a busy suburb of Washington DC is too terrifying to
contemplate. Theoretically, an airborne strain of Ebola could emerge and circle
the world in about six weeks. Ebola virus victims usually "crash and bleed," a
military term which literally means the virus attacks every organ of the body
and transforms every part of the body into a digested slime of virus particles.
A big point that Preston wanted to get across was the fact that the public
thinks that the HIV virus is quite possibly the most horrible virus on Earth,
when no one takes into mind the effects and death of the victims of Ebola.
Preston shows how Ebola and Marburg (a close relative of Ebola) is one hundred
times more contagious, one ...

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