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A review by buer
The Hot Zone by Richard Preston
dark
informative
medium-paced
4.0
Hot Zone is not always easy to read but it is a fascinating, detailed, and graphic history of the Ebola virus.
Preston traces the virus in specific people, which are surprisingly gory, as well as its eventual discovery at a facility that houses monkeys that are sold for medical purposes.
This book is a fast read due to Preston’s charismatic prose, but is also a book I had to put down multiple times due to the gore of an Ebola case and the violence enacted against the monkeys infected with the virus.
Very informative for those who are curious about the spread of viruses and the protocols surrounding emerging viruses.
Preston traces the virus in specific people, which are surprisingly gory, as well as its eventual discovery at a facility that houses monkeys that are sold for medical purposes.
This book is a fast read due to Preston’s charismatic prose, but is also a book I had to put down multiple times due to the gore of an Ebola case and the violence enacted against the monkeys infected with the virus.
Very informative for those who are curious about the spread of viruses and the protocols surrounding emerging viruses.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Death, Gore, Pandemic/Epidemic, Vomit, and Medical content