Ebola Virus In Richard Preston's The Hot Zone

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Ebola is an extremely dangerous virus that has no plan of stopping unless a cure is found. The Hot Zone, by Richard Preston, is a nonfictional account of Ebola and Marburg incidents in Africa and the monkey testing building in Reston, Virginia. In the beginning of the book, the reader is introduced to Charles Monet who dies of Marburg after contracting it in Kitum Cave of Mount Elgon, and then the reader is told about Nurse Mayinga who dies of Ebola Sudan, so her blood was sent to the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases(USAMRIID). Then a medical swat team from USAMRIID is inserted to the Reston monkey house to nuke, or kill everything, inside because a new strain of Ebola was found in the monkeys. In the monkey
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The Hot Zone was one of the pieces of work that opened the public eye to the horrors of the new wave of disease in the late 20th century. Especially the American public that was already fixated on the Aids epidemic. Richard Preston's work featured disease in a predator like way, and went into excruciating detail on the progression of the disease. Prestons’s work still stirs fear in the American public, such as back in 2014 when a man was diagnosed with ebola after coming from Libya. Much of the US…

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