The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story | 
| Author: Richard Preston
Publisher: Anchor
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  470 reviews
Sales Rank: 39567
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 448
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.2 x 1
ISBN: 0385479565
Dewey Decimal Number: 614.57
EAN: 9780385479561
ASIN: 0385479565
Publication Date: July 20, 1995
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Condition: Spine is creased and rounded from reading. Slight shelf wear to edges and covers. Crease on lower right corner of front cover.
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The dramatic and chilling story of an Ebola virus outbreak in a surburban Washington, D.C. laboratory, with descriptions of frightening historical epidemics of rare and lethal viruses. More hair-raising than anything Hollywood could think of, because it's all true.
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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.
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 Great book May 6, 2008
Great book i read in high school. i just picked it up to re-live this horror again.
Ebola April 8, 2008
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.
Awesome March 21, 2008
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.
 The Hot Zone February 26, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Hot Zone by Richard Preston really opens the readers eyes to another world that we really do not know or do not want to know about. The first part of the book is gripping and you can't help but feeling for these people who are suffering. Knowing that this was based on truth, I felt a great sense of relief when characters survived or weren't exposed to the filovirus. When a flask was smelled in the lab, not knowing what it contained, I wanted to stop the people. Preston did a good job of letting you know who these folks were so that you did care about them. The end of the book leaves you hanging which can't be helped. There are no answers. Where did the virus come from? How does it travel? When will it hit next? Hopefully, Preston is not given a reason to write part II of The Hot Zone.
I have five children, a husband, a dog, a cat, am taking college classes with people over twenty years younger than myself and it it's not a textbook or a glance at the local newspaper then I don't have time to read it. So, it was a great treat to have an assingment in my Microbiology class be to read a book in reference to microbes or viruses. I wouldn't have taken the time to read this book but I am really glad I did!
NON-FICTION MEDICAL THRILLER... February 25, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a non-fiction book that keeps readers on the edge of their seats, compulsively turning the pages. In it the author gives an education on the possible origins of different deadly hemorrhagic viruses and the devastation that they cause in both animals and humans. The author describes actual outbreaks that occurred between 1967 and 1993. This is done in an engaging, straightforward narrative that reads like a medical thriller.
The nucleus of the story focuses on an outbreak of Ebola virus in Reston, Virginia in the tony county of Fairfax, just outside of Washington, D.C. in 1983. A special, highly trained teamed of Army specialists and scientists secretly converged on that hot spot to try and stop the spread of this deadly virus, as it had a kill rate of ninety percent.
The account that the author gives of the Army's mission is riveting, as is the vivid description of the rain forests and caves of Africa where these hemorrhagic viruses are suspected of originating. The devastation these viruses cause to both animals and humans is horrifying, shocking, and, unfortunately, all too true. The author has managed to make science accessible to the general public and eminently readable. Bravo!
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