The Hot Zone “A bone-chilling account of a close encounter with a lethal virus … a totally convincing page-turner. Proving that truth is scarier than fiction.” -Kirkus Reviews. The Hot Zone is based on a true story about deadly virus breaking out in Africa and how it spreads. It tells about a few different people who caught the virus and how it has affected them and the people around them. In the book it shows how the government reacted and the different universal precautions. During the novel it tells about the story of Nancy Jaax. She was a veterinarian who worked for the government and then started working the the virus Ebola. It was a very dangerous job, but she still wanted to do it. They researched and examined the virus. Finding out…show more content… In the nonfiction novel they have a place that they send infected people to. It’s called the slammer. “At the Institute, there is a Level 4 biocontainment hospital called the Slammer, where a patient can be treated by doctors and nurses wearing space suits.” (89). So if you are infected while working with a virus there is a place to go to get treated and hopefully cured. The nurses and doctors still have to wear spacesuits in the Slammer because the government doesn’t want them getting infected either. So the government has a plan for almost everyone scenerio. They know what to do in different situations and how they are going to prevent those situations or how they are going to handle the situation. This pertains to the world now since this a non-fiction novel so I’m assuming, and hoping, that this would be true. So if you are in the Institution working with these viruses they would have these same precautions and reactions when this happens to a person. Also this might have happened sometime while they were working with a virus but the government doesn’t always tell us everything so it could have happened to someone but we just might not have known about
