He chronicles a highly transmittable and deadly infection, a zoonotic disease capable of animal and human infection. Indeed, as I write this, deaths in the United States from COVID-19 have topped those in China-the viral point of origin-and President Donald Trump has just extended Americans’ “stay at home” period.Ĭrisis in the Red Zone describes the Ebola outbreak of 2014, but Preston begins in 1976, the year doctors and scientists in the African Congo first discovered the Ebola virus. His vivid descriptions of the course of infection and the medical staff’s struggles to grasp the enormity of Ebola’s rapid and silent spread were harbingers of 2020 as his subtitle warns of the Outbreaks to Come. Preston could not have been more prophetic. This fourth book in Richard Preston’s Dark Biology series, Crisis in the Red Zone was published in July 2019, before COVID-19 descended on our world. By Richard Preston Random House 400 pages $18.99 Scott Decker, PhD 10 April 2020Ĭrisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come.
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