The Hot Zone
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Pros
- The Hot Zone by Richard Preston. I was in middle school and it scared the crap out of me.
- The Hot Zone - Richard Preston
- When I was like 8-9 my aunt left a copy of "The Hot Zone" at my house and I secretly read it and thought I was going to die of Ebola for like a week
- Because it's real, the factual breakdown of how Biosafety Level 4 suits fail or how microscopic pathogens dismantle host biology reads better and scarier.
- The Hot Zone by Richard Preston- it's a bit out of date now, but is still a good read around viruses and how they work, and how dangerous ones are researched.
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The Hot Zone by Richard Preston. I was in middle school and it scared the crap out of me.
The Hot Zone - Richard Preston
When I was like 8-9 my aunt left a copy of "The Hot Zone" at my house and I secretly read it and thought I was going to die of Ebola for like a week
Because it's real, the factual breakdown of how Biosafety Level 4 suits fail or how microscopic pathogens dismantle host biology reads better and scarier.
The Hot Zone by Richard Preston- it's a bit out of date now, but is still a good read around viruses and how they work, and how dangerous ones are researched.
recently, I’ve been absorbed in some heartbreaking memoirs written by people who have lived through truly awful events... So far, I’ve read: “The Hot Zone” — Richard Preston
The Hot Zone. Assigned to read it as a freshman in high school. Piqued my interest, read many more non-fiction medical books, Became a nurse, 15 years in the field, not stopping anytime soon.
This last month I’ve read so many books on disease and medicine and I can’t get enough. I’ve read *The Demon in the Freezer, The Hot Zone,* & *Crisis in the Red Zone* by Richard Preston
The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story by Richard Preston is a 1994 non-fiction thriller... making it a prescient and frightening read that reads like a medical thriller.
The Hot Zone about ebola. Body horror, claustrophobia, a weird cave - written exceptionally well.
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