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The Hot Zone
by Richard Preston
Honestly, I'd give it four stars if it weren't for the incredibly sensationalized descriptions of an Ebola infection (see https://io9.gizmodo.com/how-the-hot-zone-created-the-worst-myths-about-ebola-1649384576/amp), which is plenty scary without images of dissolving into puddles of viscera. This book didn't start my fascination with filoviruses, but it sure fed it, the many times I tried to read it over the years and ended up just skimming through with wide, horrified eyes.
Seriously. This book has been hanging over my head for years because I always ended up feeling panicky and unable to touch anything whenever I picked it up to try and read it (yay OCD!), so I'm really pleased to have finally gotten through it with only minimal hypochondria and handwashing. It may not be one of those 1000 page bricks I originally planned on reading this year, but it has been plaguing (har har) me for almost a decade, so I'm counting it as a win.
Seriously. This book has been hanging over my head for years because I always ended up feeling panicky and unable to touch anything whenever I picked it up to try and read it (yay OCD!), so I'm really pleased to have finally gotten through it with only minimal hypochondria and handwashing. It may not be one of those 1000 page bricks I originally planned on reading this year, but it has been plaguing (har har) me for almost a decade, so I'm counting it as a win.