Deep in the rain forests of tropical Africa are areas that bioscientists have named Hot Zones. Remote from human civilizations, they are breeding grounds where lethal, highly infectious viruses mutate and grow. As man destroys the tropical wildernesses of the world, upsetting nature's balance, these previously unknown deadly viruses are jumping from the wreckage and entering human populations,
Ebola and Marburg are the names of the viruses ir The Hot Zone. If influenza is a Level 1 virus. AIDS a Level 2. these viruses are Level 4. They`re real. They act quickly. They car sometimes be transmitted by bodily fluids, or by air. They survive outside the body. And they kill - swiftly, gruesomely, with devastating power
The Hot Zone is an account of the horrific nightmarish events which recently took place when one such virus resurfaced and did the unthinkable: crossed continents and broke out inside a house of imported monkeys located near the densely populated area of Washington DC, a stone's throw from the White House. If the virus were to infect the local population, the consequences would be unimaginable. Richard Preston re-creates in brilliant and chilling detail the appalling drama that unfolded among the team of American laboratory workers and scientists who discovered the virus in the monkey house and struggled desperately to contain it
The Hot Zone is the most terrifying true story you will ever read, It shows with alarming clarity man's weakness in the face of the ferocious power of micro organisms which are superbly equipped t0 survive and prosper, After all, they were around long before us, and it is far more likely that they not the human race, will inherit the earth
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