The Hot Zone

Edgardo Felix English 105 September 28, 2015 Ms. Dudley The Hot Zone Review “In a sense, the earth is mounting an immune response against the human species. It is beginning to react to the human parasite, the flooding infection of people, the dead spots of the concrete all over the planet, the cancerous rot-outs in Europe, Japan and the United States, perhaps the biosphere does not like the idea of five billion humans” (Preston 406). Richard Preston addresses that the Earth is tired of the…

The fame that accompanies “The Hot Zone,” into it’s 23rd anniversary is not unjustified. Preston presents an eloquent history of the Ebola virus in a manner that is easy to follow and keeps the reader interested. Preston takes it upon himself, through thoughtful descriptions, to thrust the reader into the setting of his characters. From the silvery gray-green olive trees in the forests of Mount Elgon to the insufferable heat and stench of monkeys at the Reston monkey house, the reader has to…

The Demon in the Freezer is a true, spine tingling nonfictional story and NY Times best seller about how a practically invisible, lethal virus can infect an entire nation within a matter of days. Richard Preston brought the real terror of smallpox to the attention of millions of people by bringing the virus to a personal level. The crucial scientists in this book are Peter Jahrling (chief scientist at United States Army Medical Response Institute of Infectious Disease or USAMRIID for short),…

Based on Mr. Kapoor’s condition, he is competent enough to refuse treatment, so he does not need an appointed guardian. His pancreatic cancer is in an advance stage and it is even said that he is not likely to live another four months. In addition, he refuses the treatment for gangrene saying, “No. Leave me alone and let me die in peace”. The surgeon clearly explains him the consequences of what would happen if he refuses treatment, but he still does so. Operating is the only way of stopping the…

Contagion vs. The Hot Zone While contagion and The Hot Zone show politics of a pandemic in Ha similar way, the way both the media and panic are addressed in both works is quite different. The politics are the much alike in both situations because the decisions made by the government have to be ethical to protect the public. The media and panic are largely different between the two pieces because of how classified the virus was and how big the time gap was for the use of technology. Although…

Ebola can have a fatality rate of up to ninety percent. In his novel, The Hot Zone, Richard Preston describes Ebola as, “a kind of obscenity you see only in nature, an obscenity so extreme that it dissolves imperceptibly into beauty.” The virus spreads through all bodily fluids, including blood, vomit, feces, saliva and sweat. Male patients who have recovered from the virus can even pass it on through their semen up to seven weeks after recovery (Elliot). The current outbreak in West Africa has…

the book The Hot Zone Richard Preston and the ebola virus is kinda like Scfi in my mind. When you think of Scifi you think of awful scary things that could wipe out the whole human population. Thats what ebola is, but its real. Science fiction or Scfi is something that is fictional that uses future technological advances or changes to the environment. I have learned many things about Scifi and writing techniques that talk about Scifi from the movie Unbreakable, the book The Hot Zone written by…

In Richard Preston’s The Hot Zone, the plot follows path of Ebola as it makes its way into the human race for the first time. From the beginning, with a man called Charles Monet, for our purposes, in 1980, to a young Danish boy in ‘87, to an outbreak in Reston, Virginia in 1989, Ebola virus has evaded understanding. But Preston traces its lifespan with a fine-tooth comb, carefully documenting every known occasion in which the scientific community learned more about the elusive virus. With a…

The Hot Zone by Richard Preston. Is a book that has many stories that are mainly about the filovirus which contain the two-main virus that the writer has written about it which they are Ebola and Marburg virus. The book also explains how did the virus have been discovered and how it really affected the community and what did the World Health Organization reacted on the virus effects on the world. The writer had written about how did the people react to the virus and how did the scientist…

The Hot Zone is a nonfiction novel written by Richard Preston; a book about “the terrifying true story of the origins of the Ebola virus” as the cover states. The novel is written in the perspective of the author, Richard Preston, as he interviews, medical staff, researchers and family members of the victims. The reader learns about the first of many known outbreaks of the virus, different strains of the virus, similar viruses and much more. The book is broken into four parts, each filled with…