Richard Preston's The Hot Zone

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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 feared ebola as if it was a new plague.
The Hot Zone follows the true events surrounding the outbreak of ebola in the 1970’s and 1980’s. Our story begins with a man named Charles Monet, who contracted a virus later found out to be the Marburg virus.
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