The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story
by Richard Preston
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Author: Richard PrestonEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1999-06-15
ISBN: 0385495226
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: Anchor
Book Reviews of The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story
Book Review: This Story Is A Nightmare...
Summary: 3 Stars
Reading this book was a downer, a bummer, and was the only book in 35 years of reading that gave me nightmares, made worse by the fact that it's a true story.
As a medical professional, I read it to the end and it's the ONLY part of science that I'm shamed. Research on hundreds of thousands of aminals 'sacrificed' for observation, research, 'safety', theory.
If u want to read about the extensive confinement, torture and massacre of thousands of healthy, intellegent aminals, go ahead and read it.
It's not the book that is sad, it's the story that's pathetic.
No cure was found, the source of the 'disease' wasn't found.
Robert Redford called the book a 'thriller'. It is a B-U-M-M-E-R...
There's no happy ending, no highlights, not even a smile to be found.
It starts with death and goes downhill from there. A roller coaster ride into muck. The roller coaster crashes and takes peoples' conscience with it. It's a legal massacre of the aminal kingdom with no reparations, replinishment or consideration of consequence.
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Summary of The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story
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 theappearance 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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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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