Preston, Richard

• The Hot Zone

  • Well, if you're looking for something new and different, you've got it in this book. It is a chronicle of the outbreaks of a few different strains of Ebola in Africa as well as a very detailed story about a strain that made it to America in a shipment of monkeys and eventually infected four humans. The initial chapters describe the symptoms that eventually result in death for the deadly strains, and to be honest, it was disgusting. I'll never forget the mental image of "black vomit", and that's just for starters. Don't bother reading this unless you have a strong stomach. If you make it through the first few chapters, the rest is more of a documentary on how the Army and the CDC work to handle contagious diseases like this (the answer: as best they can, which is pretty haphazardly).

Return to the Welcome Page of Doug's Library.