![]() ![]() A movie based on this book, directed by Ridley Scott ( Alien ), will star Robert Redford. ![]() ![]() Preston plausibly argues that the emergence of AIDS, Ebola and other highly adaptable rain-forest viruses is a consequence of ecological ruin of the tropics. In a horrifying and riveting report, portions of which appeared in the New Yorker, Preston ( American Steel ) exposes a real-life nightmare potentially as lethal as the fictive runaway germs in Michael Crichton's The Andromeda Strain. Army-led biohazard task force that decontaminated the lab, exterminating hundreds of monkeys to prevent the possible airborne spread of the disease to humans. And in 1989 Philippine monkeys in a Reston, Va., research lab, found to be infected with Ebola, were the target of a U.S. He has also won the AAAS-Westinghouse Award and the McDermott Award in the Arts from MIT. He is a regular contribuot to The New Yorker. Outbreaks of the Ebola filovirus devasted Sudan and Zaire in 1976. Richard Preston is the author of several books, most recently The Cobra Event. ![]() Symptoms include liquefying flesh, spurts of blood, black vomit and brain sludge. 'This work of nonfiction is more terrifying than any sci-fi nightmare. Its effects are so quick and so gruesome. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The bestselling landmark account of the first emergence of the Ebola virus. Far more infectious than AIDS, filoviruses (thread viruses) are relentless killer machines that consume a human body in days, causing a gruesome death. The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story by Richard Preston The virus kills nine out of ten of its victims. ![]()
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