Category: The Hot Zone

  • The Hot Zone’: Summary

    The Hote Zone traces the true events surrounding an outbreak of the Ebola virus at a monkey facility in Reston, Virginia in the late 1980s. In order to contextualize the danger posed by this outbreak, Preston provides background about several other viral outbreaks, particularly in Africa in the 1970s and 1980s. The result is a…

  • The Hot Zone’: This Book about Viruses Changed Everything

    With the COVID-19 pandemic raging, I found myself looking through my bookshelves for a paperback copy of Richard Prestons 1994 bestseller, The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story. Its worth noting that one of the bio-disaster movies that everyone seems to want to watch these days is 1995s Outbreak, with Dustin Hoffman and Renee Russo…

  • The Hot Zone’: the Main Idea of the Book

    Just when you thought it was safe to ease out of your movie-theater seat and head home from a close encounter of the viral kind in Outbreak  wait. It turns out that Dustin Hoffman and Morgan Freeman haven’t even begun to tell the real story. For that you’ll have to go to Richard Preston’s…