A movie based on this book, directed by Ridley Scott ( Alien ), will star Robert Redford. Imagine an organism against which there is no defence. Imagine something so deadly that it wipes out 90 per cent of those it touches. Imagine a killer with the infectiousness of the common cold and power of the Black Death. Preston plausibly argues that the emergence of AIDS, Ebola and other highly adaptable rain-forest viruses is a consequence of ecological ruin of the tropics. The Hot Zone: The Chilling True Story of an Ebola Outbreak14.08(2,110)Only 1 left in stock (more on the way). In a horrifying and riveting report, portions of which appeared in the New Yorker, Preston ( American Steel ) exposes a real-life nightmare potentially as lethal as the fictive runaway germs in Michael Crichton's The Andromeda Strain. Army-led biohazard task force that decontaminated the lab, exterminating hundreds of monkeys to prevent the possible airborne spread of the disease to humans. And in 1989 Philippine monkeys in a Reston, Va., research lab, found to be infected with Ebola, were the target of a U.S. Outbreaks of the Ebola filovirus devasted Sudan and Zaire in 1976. Warner Bros/Punch Prods/Kopelson If the story of the COVID-19. Symptoms include liquefying flesh, spurts of blood, black vomit and brain sludge. The 1995 film Outbreak was loosely based on The Hot Zone, Richard Prestons nonfiction account of Africas Ebola pandemic. Far more infectious than AIDS, filoviruses (thread viruses) are relentless killer machines that consume a human body in days, causing a gruesome death.
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