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The Hot Zone
The Hot Zone
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 …
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…highly lethal 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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