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Chargement... The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (original 1994; édition 1999)par Richard Preston (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreVirus par Richard Preston (1994)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Zona caliente es uno de los thrillers ms escalofriantes de los ltimos tiempos salvo por un detalle: todo lo que aqu se cuenta sucedi en verdad. La 'zona caliente' es el recinto de mxima seguridad y aislamiento donde los especialistas del Ejrcito de los Estados Unidos manipulan los virus ms mortferos que se conocen. No hace mucho, en las afueras de Washington, slo una operacin militar secreta pudo detener la propagacin de un filovirus asesino entre centenares de monos de laboratorio.Este libro extraordinario revela la seria amenaza que - como lo demostr el vrus Ebola - se cierne sobre el mundo actual. Zona caliente es un testimonio sensacional que demuestra como la realidad puede superar a la mejor ficcin. This may be the scariest book I've ever read. Seriously. By comparison, it makes [b:House of Leaves|24800|House of Leaves|Mark Z. Danielewski|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1403889034s/24800.jpg|856555] read like a fairy tale. Because this book is actually true, the hypotheses within could actually happen. It doesn't take much imagination to envision the consequences of a contagious killer virus. Preston enumerates the initial case of Ebola and then traces forward to an outbreak of it in a monkey research facility in Reston, Virginia. Part horror, part medical mystery, and all true, The Hot Zone makes you realize how vulnerable the human race really could be. Imagine an illness that kills like the black plague and spreads like the flu. What happens if a virus like that gets out in the population? This book definitely is written with dramatic flair, and perhaps at points is a little over the top, but that is what makes it such a fantastic and accessible read. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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As a caver I didn't get a good sense of the african cave scenes. Seems like an interesting area with potential! There's also quite a bit of anthropomorphising of the virus. Although he mostly remembers to put quotes around the "wants" "needs" "desires" etc, he still frequently seems to imply agency to virus particles, and they really are nothing more than code - capable of astonishing things when all their prerequires are met, but without any option of bringing those conditions about.
Given the world's preocupation with viruses in general it's still a timely reminder of just how close to the knife edge we are actually walking. ( )