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4.09 AVERAGE
4.09 AVERAGE
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This is the book that changed everything about how I view Ebola. It was a terrifying read. I read it before the pandemic, many years prior. It helped me picture what was going to happen once COVID started spreading.
This is the most fascinating book about a pandemic I have read ever!! It needs a follow up since this one was written about the first discovery and outbreak in the 80s/90s of the virus. I really want to know what they are researching and doing since the 2014 outbreak that was way worse.
Read this book if you love medical research and virology!!
Read this book if you love medical research and virology!!
3 food items that have been ruined for me a little: spaghetti, freshly ground pepper, chocolate chip cookies
Facts I learned:
elephants teach their children to dig caves looking for salt(?)
HIV can not live beyond 20 seconds when exposed to air
By the time HIV becomes AIDS it has become multiple strains of infection
Hot vomit can be a thing
There are at least 3 strains of Ebola
The CDC doesn't want to do a whole lot of testing for Ebola due to the fact you will literally cry blood.
Facts I learned:
elephants teach their children to dig caves looking for salt(?)
HIV can not live beyond 20 seconds when exposed to air
By the time HIV becomes AIDS it has become multiple strains of infection
Hot vomit can be a thing
There are at least 3 strains of Ebola
The CDC doesn't want to do a whole lot of testing for Ebola due to the fact you will literally cry blood.
Nonfiction is tricky: while I liked the information and the topic - I didn't like the style that the author decided on.
Overall loved it. It kept me on the edge of my seat and was generally understandable to the layperson but kept enough details that a microbiologist could be interested. I have to get up in 5 hours if that tells you anything about how much I liked it
3.5/10
I was not fond of this book at all. I wanted so badly to like it because I love books about diseases and science but this book felt all kinds of wrong. I liked the descriptions of what was happening to the people and that was it, my negatives are as follows.
1. WHY IN THE HELL DO WE NEED TO KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE LAKE UNDERNEATH THE PLANE; WE ARE GOING TO BE HERE FOR A FEW PAGES WHY DOES THAT MATTER? There is just so much unnecessary detail in this book it is crazy.
2. Pick a way to organize the book timeline, and people, and place are some of the options pick something. Sometimes it is organized but most of the time you are being thrown around so much. I completely lost track of who people were because there were so many of them all at once.
3. Everything about this book was very forgettable I think that was because there was so much stuff going on and it was being thrown at us all at once; there are so many better resources to learn from than this just don't read it unless you like to suffer.
I was not fond of this book at all. I wanted so badly to like it because I love books about diseases and science but this book felt all kinds of wrong. I liked the descriptions of what was happening to the people and that was it, my negatives are as follows.
1. WHY IN THE HELL DO WE NEED TO KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE LAKE UNDERNEATH THE PLANE; WE ARE GOING TO BE HERE FOR A FEW PAGES WHY DOES THAT MATTER? There is just so much unnecessary detail in this book it is crazy.
2. Pick a way to organize the book timeline, and people, and place are some of the options pick something. Sometimes it is organized but most of the time you are being thrown around so much. I completely lost track of who people were because there were so many of them all at once.
3. Everything about this book was very forgettable I think that was because there was so much stuff going on and it was being thrown at us all at once; there are so many better resources to learn from than this just don't read it unless you like to suffer.
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medium-paced
It was just ok. It was about ebola, and really could have been a long article about it, really. I wouldn't recommend it, expect maybe to someone who wants to know the very basics about a virus outbreak.
adventurous
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mysterious
tense
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