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.
Amazon.com Review
The dramatic and chilling story of an Ebola virus outbreak in a surburban Washington, D.C. laboratory, with descriptions of frightening historical epidemics of rare and lethal viruses. More hair-raising than anything Hollywood could think of, because it's all true.
From Publishers Weekly
Preston's account of an outbreak of a strain of the Ebola virus among monkeys in a Virginia laboratory has spent more than 30 weeks on PW's bestseller list.
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From School Library Journal
YA?Warning?not for faint hearts or weak stomachs! In 1989, an obscure filovirus travels from the African rain forest to a lab near Washington, D.C., where the monkeys quickly sicken and die. Preston traces the history of the Warburg and Ebola filoviruses in minute, horrific detail that is as fascinating to read as it is alarming to contemplate?these filoviruses have the capability to mutate and possibly cross species. There are extraneous descriptions of scenery and of the characters' lives, but these passages serve to relieve the mounting tension and terror as the virus spreads and the CDC, the Army, and a private firm work out a containment plan to prevent a mass epidemic. YAs interested in science or fans of Stephen King or Michael Crichton will find this a fast-paced medical chiller right to the last disturbing page.?Judy Sokoll, Fairfax County Public Library, VA
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Expanded from Preston's 1992 New Yorker article, this account of a lethal virus run amok is Michael Crichton's The Andromeda Strain come true. In the fall of 1989, imported monkeys at a Reston, Virginia, facility began dying of a mysterious illness. Was it simian hemorrhagic fever (fatal to monkeys but harmless to humans) or was it Ebola, an extremely deadly tropical virus that had devasted villages in Zaire and the Sudan in 1976? Writing in a breathless novelistic style, Preston (American Steel, LJ 4/15/91) follows a military SWAT team as they don biohazard space suits to enter the "hot zone" and contain the alien virus. While this is thrilling reading (there are plenty of gruesome descriptions of Ebola's effects on human victims), one does wonder how much Preston sensationalized events for the sake of a good story. He also only sketchily discusses the possiblity that the destruction of the rainforests are releasing unknown viruses into the human population. Still, with a forthcoming movie starring Robert Redford and Jodie Foster, there will be
Chloe Harmon Mrs. Wright English I Honors 25 February 2015 Hot Zone Tone: A Literary Analysis Essay of the Hot Zone by Richard Preston It is suggested that nine out of ten people will not survive the Ebola super virus. The book The Hot Zone by Richard Preston describes events between 1967 and 1993 involving the virus and its development period in Washington D.C. Tone is a literary compound of composition, which encompasses the attitude toward the subject audience implied…
My opinion on viruses is that they are not living. After reading The Hot Zone and researching viruses on the internet, I do not believe they are living. Even though viruses have some characteristics of living things, they do not have them all. For example, viruses lack the “structure” that most life forms have. They have their own DNA but don’t possess the trait needed to reproduce on their own. On page 418 in The Hot Zone, the definition for a virus is given and it states that, “A virus depends…
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Do all volcanoes form at subduction zones? There are many different types of volcanoes and many different ways they’re formed. Some of the plates diverge away from each other forming volcanoes in the middle of them, or also through convection. Subduction volcanoes are formed from one tectonic plate moves under another tectonic plate down into Earth’s mantle. The Ring of Fire is an example of many volcanoes formed by subduction. It is the most volcanically active belt on Earth, surrounding the…
Question 1 It is possible, though still not certain, that Mars was once globally warmer and wetter, with liquid water globally stable at the surface during the Noachian. If liquid water was once stable on Mars, most of the following statements are true. One is false. Find the false statement. The surface temperature was at least 0 degrees Celsius. Substantially more water was present in the atmosphere than is present today. Liquid water would also have been stable in the subsurface. It…
air alone. So I found the latent heat gain using the thermodynamic property tables, the mass of the primary air and the moisture contents of the previous points. Hence, I also found the room moisture content for both the zones. After that I located the state of air in both zones on the psychometric chart which indicated that they are on a single point. I noted the percentage saturation and the enthalpy on this point. From this data, I figured the cooling load of the primary…
The surface of the Earth is broken up into large plates. The Earth is dynamic because of its inner heat, which comes from deep in the mantle where heat, rising and falling inside it, creates convection currents generated by radioactive breakdown in the core. The convection currents move the plates. Where convection currents diverge near the Earth's crust, plates move apart. Where convection currents converge, plates move towards each other. The movement of the plates, and the activity inside the…
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results in a layered Earth with densest “stuff” in the interior. 4. What is the difference between the lithosphere and the asthenosphere? Lithosphere – cool, rigid outer shell, brittle behavior (rock) 100 km thick Asthenosphere – below lithosphere, hot, weak, and plastic behavior 5. Name and briefly describe each of the 5 oceans. 1.) Pacific – largest in area & volume also deepest, circular shaped, very geologically active (“The Ring of Fire”) shrinking 2.) Atlantic – 2nd largest, s shaped,…
red brand around the sun during eclipses. Surprisingly, the temperatures from the top of the photosphere as we move outwards rise from 4500K to reach 10,000 K. Finally, the corona, the collection of gases immediately around the sun. It is extremely hot with a temperature reaching 1 million K. Similarly to the chromosphere; the corona can only be seen with the naked eyes during eclipses. The area which have no corona are called “corona holes”, and it is thought to be where particles of the solar wind…
