![]() ![]() ![]() From a remote jungle cave festering with deadly organisms, to an airplane over Africa that is carrying a sick passenger who dissolves into a human virus bomb, to the confines of a Biosafety Level 4 military lab where scientists risk their lives studying lethal substances that could kill them quickly and horribly, The Hot Zone describes situations that a few years ago would have been taken for science fiction. The Hot Zone tells this dramatic story in depth for the first time, giving an absolutely hair-raising account of the appearance of rare and lethal viruses and their "crashes" into the human race. The grim operation went on in secret for eighteen days, under dangerous conditions for which there was no precedent. A SWAT team of soldiers and scientists wearing biohazard space suits had been organized to stop the outbreak of an exotic "hot" virus. In the winter of 1989, at an Army research facility outside Washington, D.C., this doomsday scenario seemed like a real possibility. ![]() It is airborne, it is extremely contagious, and it is about to burn through the suburbs of a major American city. The virus kills nine out of ten of its victims so quickly and gruesomely that even biohazard experts are terrified. ![]()
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