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The Hot Zone by Richard Preston
5.0

richard preston's fantastic writing style will totally immerse you into the story of how ebola broke containment of a reston, virginia lab monkey quarantine facility, almost spreading to the D.C. metro area and beyond. my favorite part of the entire book is the amazing imagery that settles you as the reader in transcendentalist-like descriptions of sub-saharan africa's primordial natural landscapes; along with details that will make your stomach turn in pure disgust with details of coffee-ground textured bloody vomit and people's faces turning into masks because the tissues underneath melted. i certainly never knew how terrifying and grotesque hemorrhagic viruses are until i read this book! rest in peace to all those ebola victims. like, damn.