I didn't know that it liquidates your organs and turns your body into a walking corpse days before you "bleed out". I knew it was a disease and that it killed people. Preston uses interviews and first-hand accounts to tell the story of the Ebola virus and its various strains. That's what The Hot Zone is: A true horror story. Because, well, the TV show might be very creepy, but I have to say it is nothing compared to the horror of this book. I read this book on the same days I was watching the Netflix adaptation of The Haunting of Hill House, which had a curious effect on me. The appearance of AIDS is part of the pattern, and the implications for the future of the human species are terrifying.īoth species, the human and the monkey, were in the presence of another life form, which was older and more powerful than either of them, and was a dweller in blood. As the tropical wildernesses of the world are destroyed, previously unknown viruses that have lived undetected in the rain forest for eons are entering human populations. From a remote jungle cave festering with deadly organisms, to an airplane over Africa that is carrying a sick passenger who dissolves into a human virus bomb, to the confines of a Biosafety Level 4 military lab where scientists risk their lives studying lethal substances that could kill them quickly and horribly, The Hot Zone describes situations that a few years ago would have been taken for science fiction. The Hot Zone tells this dramatic story in depth for the first time, giving an absolutely hair-raising account of the appearance of rare and lethal viruses and their "crashes" into the human race. The grim operation went on in secret for eighteen days, under dangerous conditions for which there was no precedent. A SWAT team of soldiers and scientists wearing biohazard space suits had been organized to stop the outbreak of an exotic "hot" virus.
In the winter of 1989, at an Army research facility outside Washington, D.C., this doomsday scenario seemed like a real possibility.
It is airborne, it is extremely contagious, and it is about to burn through the suburbs of a major American city. The virus kills nine out of ten of its victims so quickly and gruesomely that even biohazard experts are terrified.
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