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The Hot Zone
Richard Preston
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Description for The Hot Zone
Paperback. In March 2014, the Ebola outbreak in West Africa was first reported. By October 2014, it had become the largest and deadliest occurrence of the disease. Almost 10,000 cases have been reported, across Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Nigeria and the US. This book offers a true-life account of this highly infectious virus. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: PSGL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 123 x 24. Weight in Grams: 266.
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In March 2014, the Ebola outbreak in West Africa was first reported. By October 2014, it had become the largest and deadliest occurrence of the disease.
Over 4,500 people have died. Almost 10,000 cases have been reported, across Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Nigeria and the United States.
Impossible to ignore, The Hot Zone is the terrifying, true-life account of when this highly infectious virus spread from the rainforests of Africa to the suburbs of Washington, D.C in 1989. A secret SWAT team ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Corgi
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780552171649
SKU
9780552171649
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99-1
About Richard Preston
Richard Preston was born in 1954 in Cambridge, Massachusetts and received a Ph.D from Princeton University. He is the author of The Hot Zone; American Steel (about the Nucor Corporation's project to build a revolutionary steel mill); and First Light (about astronomy and astronomists) which won the American Institute of Physics award in science writing. An asteroid has ... Read more
Reviews for The Hot Zone
One of the most terrifying books I've ever read. Move over Stephen King and Michael Crichton - this really happened, within sight of the Washington Monument. And sooner or later it will happen again
Arthur C. Clarke Reads like a nightmarish Stephen King thriller...It will keep you awake at night because you know that this is not a figment ... Read more
Arthur C. Clarke Reads like a nightmarish Stephen King thriller...It will keep you awake at night because you know that this is not a figment ... Read more