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Book Report, The Hot Zone by Richard Preston
Title: Book Report, The Hot Zone by Richard Preston
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 676 | Pages: 2.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
Book Report, The Hot Zone by Richard Preston
In October of l989, Macaque monkeys, housed at the Reston Primate
Quarantine Unit in Reston, Virginia, began dying from a mysterious disease
at an alarming rate. The monkeys, imported from the Philippines, were to
be sold as laboratory animals. Twenty-nine of a shipment of one hundred
died within a month. Dan Dalgard, the veterinarian who cared for the
monkeys, feared they were dying from Simian Hemorrhagic Fever, a disease
lethal to monkeys but harmless to …showed first 75 words of 676 total…
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viruses on a regular basis.
Preston has written a fast-paced and fascinating novel of medical
panic. His gripping narrative is filled with horrifying and gore-filled
descriptions and tension-building plot turns. From depictions of events at
a Belgian Hospital in Africa to the nerve-racking laboratory scenes in
Virginia, he is adept at keeping the reader riveted. At the conclusion the
reader is left with the chilling and fact based haunting after thought
'what if?'
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