The Hot Zone: The Chilling True Story of an Ebola Outbreak - Softcover

Preston, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0552143030 ISBN 13: 9780552143035

Publisher: Corgi, 1995

Synopsis

In March 2014, the Ebola outbreak in West Africa was first reported. By October 2014, it had become the largest and deadliest occurrence of the disease.

Over 4,500 people have died. Almost 10,000 cases have been reported, across Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Nigeria and the United States.

Impossible to ignore, The Hot Zone is the terrifying, true-life account of when this highly infectious virus spread from the rainforests of Africa to the suburbs of Washington, D.C in 1989. A secret SWAT team of soldiers and scientists were quickly tasked with halting the outbreak. And they did. But now, that very same virus is back. And we could be just one wrong move away from a pandemic.

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Review:

The dramatic and chilling story of an Ebola virus outbreak in a suburban 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.

Review:

" One of the most horrifying things I've ever read. What a remarkable piece of work."
--Stephen King

" Popular science writing at its best and the year's most infectious page-turner."
--"People"

" A top-drawer horror story...the best literary roller coaster of the fall."
--"Newsweek"

"One of the most horrifying things I've ever read. What a remarkable piece of work."
--Stephen King

"Popular science writing at its best and the year's most infectious page-turner."
--People

"A top-drawer horror story...the best literary roller coaster of the fall."
--Newsweek

About this edition

• Publisher: Corgi
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0552143030
• ISBN 13: 9780552143035
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384