The Hot Zone is a best-selling 1994 non-fiction bio-thriller by Richard Preston about the origins of incidents involving hemorrhagic fevers and both the Ebola and Marburg viruses. The basis of the book was Preston's 1992 New Yorker article "Crisis in the Hot Zone".
The filoviruses Ebola and Marburg are both Biosafety Level 4 agents (because they are extremely lethal to humans and very infectious), that are often found in central Africa. Along wit...
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The Hot Zone is a best-selling 1994 non-fiction bio-thriller by Richard Preston about the origins of incidents involving hemorrhagic fevers and both the Ebola and Marburg viruses. The basis of the book was Preston's 1992 New Yorker article "Crisis in the Hot Zone".
The filoviruses Ebola and Marburg are both Biosafety Level 4 agents (because they are extremely lethal to humans and very infectious), that are often found in central Africa. Along with describing the history of these two illnesses, Preston describes an incident in which Ebola was suspected to be found in a Reston, Virginia, monkey storage facility.
The original Reston, VA facility located at 1946 Isaac Newton Square was torn down sometime between 1995 and 1998.
The book is divided into four sections:
The book starts off with Charles Monet (a pseudonym), who visits Kitum Cave during a camping trip to Mount Elgon in Central Africa. Not long after, he begins to suffer a number of symptoms, including vomiting, diarrhoea and...
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