The Hot Zone, A Terrifying True Story

The Hot Zone, A Terrifying True Story by Richard Preston. Published by Random House Inc, New York, NY, 1994. 1st Edition 6th Printing. Hardbound, Paper DJ. Size 8vo (up to 9-1/2'' tall). Condition: Fine in Good DJ. 300 Pgs. ISBN 0679430946. LCCN 94-13415. The virus kills 9 out of 10 of its victims so quickly and gruesomely that even biohazard experts are terrified. It is airborne, it is extremely contagious, and it is about to burn through the suburbs of a major American city. Is there any way to stop it? This book tells this dramatic story in depth for the first time, giving an absolutely hair-raising account of appearance of rare and lethal viruses and their ''crashes'' into the human race. From a remote jungle cave festering with deadly organisms, to an airplane over Africa that is carrying a sick passenger who dissolves into a human virus bomb, to the confines of a Biosafety Level 4 military lab where scientists risk their lives studying lethal substances that could kill them quickly and horribly, this book describes situations that a few years ago would have been taken for science fiction. Description text copyright 2005 BooksForComfort. Item ID 8130.