It was written like a thriller, which made it really engrossing. Preston now arrives at one of the most important, powerful, and disturbing passages within the narrative, asserting that human destruction of the environment has directly produced deadly hot viruses such as HIV and Ebolaand implying that perhaps the Earth would be a better place if such a virus were to severely deplete the human race. This book was extremely disturbing to read, although it kept me glued to my seat and I learned a lot of stuff. Like, imagine if we had an Ebola pandemic instead.
It contains some of the grossest passages I’ve had the misfortune to read and makes me, well, very grateful that coronavirus was so comparatively mild of a virus to cause a pandemic. The Hot Zone is narrative nonfiction that chronicles the origin and spread of the Marburg and Ebola viruses, both of which literally liquefy your body and cause you to explode into a pool of blood. The Hot Zone, by Richard Preston, is widely based on the pandemics that have happened in the late 1980& rsquo s in North America (Marburg and Ebola Filo. He also holds an award from the American Institute of Physics. A writer for The New Yorker since 1985, Preston is the only nondoctor to have received the Centers for Disease Controls Champion of Prevention Award. Once a virus hits the net, it can shoot anywhere in a day-Paris, Tokyo, New York, Los Angeles, wherever planes fly Richard Preston is the bestselling author of The Hot Zone, The Demon in the Freezer, and the novel The Cobra Event. All of the earth’s cities are connected by a web of airline routes.
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.” My ThoughtsĪ hot virus from the rain forest lives within a twenty-four-hour plane flight from every city on earth. In a few days 90 percent of its victims are dead. Now, if something like that were to become highly contagious … if the thing was spreading in the air that caused personality changes and spotty liquefaction of the brain, we would have a really big problem.“A highly infectious, deadly virus from the central African rain forest suddenly appears in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. “But it gets in through your lungs and then it migrates from the lungs to the brain where it causes personality changes, spotty liquefaction of the brain and death. And right now it’s not very infectious in humans. It’s been breaking out in Southeast Asia. It’s another bat virus, but it’s a totally different family. Preston said, “It’s been engaging in small outbreaks. This is a scanning electron micrograph of Nipah virus (yellow) budding from the surface of a cell. By NewsDesk an interview on Yahoo Entertainment, The Hot Zone author, Richard Preston discussed another virus that we could see in the post-COVID era–Nipah virus.
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