The Hot Zone
- Author name: Richard Preston
- Date published: 1994
In 1992, Richard Preston wrote an article for
the New Yorker titled “Crisis in the Hot Zone.” This essay was the foundation
for his 1994 nonfiction thriller “The Hot Zone,” about an outbreak of the
Reston virus in Washington D.C. among a group of imported monkeys in a lab. The
book goes on to touch on similar viruses that are deadly to humans—think the
Ebola virus, Sudan virus, Marburg virus, or Ravn virus—and how
easily-transmutable they are, how horrific the symptoms can be, and how quickly
they can wipe out large portions of the population.
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