The Hot Zone

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The bestselling landmark account of the first emergence of the Ebola virus 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 From the Paperback edition. Free Read Kindle ePUB The Hot Zone author Richard Preston – kino-fada.fr Terror at the personal level.Very personal for meI read this book while on night watch in the Army I was eating cheap red licorice at a frenzied pace while I read from sheer nerves The idea of bleeding out through every bodily opening was terrifying The next morning I went to the bathroom and discovered that cheep red licorice passes nearly untouched through the human digestive system It goes in red and comes out red blood red I very nearly screamed before I realized what I was seeing Terror at the personal level.Very personal for meI read this book while on night watch in the Army I was eating cheap red licorice at a frenzied pace while I read from sheer...This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers To view it, click here Holy fuck This book will make you want to wash your hands a lot Also, you may feel compelled to go out and purchase your own HAZMAT suit Try not to read this book before bed It may cause some unsettling dreams Like dreams about your internal organs liquifying and bleeding out of your eyeballs I don t know, I found that kind of un...Read this while you are eating on a plane next to a sick person.My take away thoughts from reading The Hot Zone A You do not want to get infected with Ebola.B If A above occurs, head immediately and directly to your nearest lawn and garden store, purchase a pack of...The first thing to know about The Hot Zone, the 1995 bestseller by Richard Preston, is that it is not a romance novel While men, women, exotic getaways and showers are involved, they re not the type that would cue Sade on the soundtrack The book is based on an article by Preston published by the New Yorker in 1992 as Crisis in the Hot Zone but by trying to hit two targets journalism and the thriller suspense genre it misses both The rudimentary style of Preston s writing dispels the mater The first thing to know about The Hot Zone, the 1995 bestseller by Richard Preston, is that it is not a romance novel While men, women, exotic getaways and showers are involved, they re not the type that would cue Sade on the soundtrack The book is based on an article by Preston published by the New Yorker in 1992 as Crisis in the Hot Zone but by trying to hit two targets journalism and the thriller suspense genre it misses both The rudimentary style of Preston s writing dispels the material as satisfying non fiction, while the lack of a strong central character or narrative limit it as a yarn.The material concerns the discovery of the Ebola virus in western Kenya in 1980 and efforts by the U....The positive Friggin scary Not just the descriptions of people bleeding out of their pores, or the bit about the melting organs it all started with an imperceptible bug bite, or maybe sex, or perhaps just breathing the air in a certain place Then you get a headache and red eyes Then you slowly start to melt from the inside out It s a sort of sick pleasure, though, to read it It s as well written as most medical thrillers, and nicely paced.The negative I mean, of course it s going t The positive Friggin scary Not just the descriptions of people bleeding out of their pores, or the bit about the melting organs it all started with an imperceptible bug bite, or maybe sex, or perhaps just breathing the air in a certain place Then you get a headache and red eyes Then you slowly start to melt from the inside out It s a sort of sick pleasure, though, to read it It s as well written as most medical thrillers, and nicely paced.The negative I mean, of course it s going to be a little sensationalized it s a book that deals in large part with an outbreak of a mutated Ebola strain in the Uni...Hot zone traces the first outbreaks of the Ebola virus from the African jungles The beginning of the book is definitely not for the squeamish as there are detailed accounts of the effects Ebola has on both human and Monkey populations of the region for those of you unaware Ebola is many timesdeadly than the HIV virus, in fact, one of the Ebola strains has a mortality rate of 90% Unlike HIV, death comes quickly in horrendous circumstances The patient or victim if you like will usuall Hot zone traces the first outbreaks of the Ebola virus from the African jungles The beginning of the book is definitely not for the squeamish as there are detailed accounts of the effects Ebola has on both human and Monkey populations of the region for those of you unaware Ebola is many timesdeadly than the HIV virus, in fact, one of the Ebola strains has a mortality rate of 90% Unlike HIV, death comes quickly in horrendous circumstances The patient or victim if you like will usually start by feeling a little nauseous and suffers headaches within 10 days of contracting the disease Their condition deteriorates quickly and death can be a matter of days, leaving an almost unrecognizable corpse.This book is split into two pa...Ouch seems I am of the faint hearted sort At the point where Monet starts to literally disintegrate on his plane trip, I got a kind of anxiety attack and had to stop reading so it looks like I might literally not be able to read this book UPDATE I did it..and Preston did apparently later admit that he had slightly exaggerated here and there I must admit that I found his visit to Kitum cave, towards the end of the book, to be a spot of melodrama, as was quite a bit of the rest Ouch seems I am of the faint hearted sort At the point where Monet starts to literally disintegrate on his plane trip, I got a kind of anxiety attack and had to stop reading so it looks like I might literally not be able to read this book UPDATE I did it..and Preston did apparently later admit that he had slightly exaggerated here and there I must admit that I found his visit to Kitum cave, towards the end of the book, to be a spot of melodrama, as was quite a bit of the rest of book, interspersed with unnecessary filler.I did find it very interesting indeed to read about the research and how virologists work.As a whole I found the book pretty readable when it wasn t sc...The subtitle for Richard Preston s 1994 bestseller reads The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus How much you enjoy The Hot Zone might just hinge on what you know about Ebola going in and, by extension, how seriously you take that subtitle To say that Preston took artistic liberties is akin to saying Ayn Rand held only a little contempt for Marxism or that Memento had a tendency to confuse its viewers There can be no doubt that Preston delivered a vivid and hair raising The subtitle for Richard Preston s 1994 bestseller reads The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus How much you enjoy The Hot Zone might just hinge on what you know about Ebola going in and, by extension, how seriously you take that subtitle To say that Preston took artistic liberties is akin to saying Ayn Rand held only a little contempt for Marxism or that Memento had a tendency to confuse its viewers There can be no do...This book scared the crap out of me Not only is it terrifying to read about this insane virus, but I ve never read non fiction work with such urgent and visceral power I felt splattered and shattered by the time the whole ghastly mess was all over, but was f...

The Hot Zone
  • English
  • 15 April 2018
  • Paperback
  • 352 pages
  • 0385495226
  • Richard Preston
  • The Hot Zone