Preston takes us to 1983 and introduces us to Nancy Jaax (a Major at the time) and her husband Jerry Jaax, both of whom are veterinarians in the US Army. Nancy works in a Level 4 laboratory at USAMRIID, meaning she handles diseases that have no vaccine or cure with the protection of a spacesuit. Siegel, Tatiana (October 16, 2014). "Ebola TV Series in the Works From Lynda Obst, Ridley Scott (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved October 20, 2014.

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Heading research on Ebola at the Institute is Eugene Johnson (Gene), who has hunted Ebola for decades—most scientists are too scared of the virus to work with it. He injects monkeys with Ebola Zaire (using a strain taken from a now-dead nurse named Mayinga) and then attempts to cure them. It is Nancy’s job, along with her superior, Colonel Anthony Johnson (Tony), to dissect the monkeys when the cures fail (as they always do). After the laborious process of putting on a spacesuit, Nancy and Tony enter the hot zone and begin their dissection. They continue until Tony notices a tear on Nancy’s outer glove (they both wear three layers). She exits the dissection room immediately and is horrified to see that the blood has gotten to her innermost glove—but it has not touched her hand. She has just barely escaped exposure. The experiment ends soon after this incident—but not before Gene and Nancy discover that Ebola is able to mutate and make itself airborne.Sinopsis: Zona caliente es uno de los thrillers ms escalofriantes de los últimos tiempos salvo por un detalle: todo lo que aquí se cuenta sucedió en verdad. La 'zona caliente' es el recinto de máxima seguridad y aislamiento donde los especialistas del Ejército de los Estados Unidos manipulan los virus ms mortíferos que se conocen. No hace mucho, en las afueras de Washington, solo una operación militar secreta pudo detener la propagación de un filovirus asesino entre centenares de monos de laboratorio. Este libro extraordinario revela la seria amenaza que - como lo demostrar el virus Ebola - se cierne sobre el mundo actual. Zona caliente es un testimonio sensacional que demuestra como la realidad puede superar a la mejor ficción. Goldberg, Lesley (April 18, 2018). "Ebola Drama Series From Scott Free Set as Nat Geo Grows Scripted Roster (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved April 18, 2018. Well, I'm glad I didn't read this when I was a kid, because Ebola is even more horrifying than my little 12 year old mind could have conceived. It's awful. And this book gets graphic. It's also informative, engaging, and most of all chilling. It didn't help that I was burning up with a fever the majority of the time I was reading the book, but EVEN STILL. You can't help but contemplate the very thin line we tread between the perception of our impenetrable safety and a viral outbreak that has the potential to wipe out humanity. a b Alcinii, Daniele (February 8, 2019). "Exclusive: National Geographic to launch Ebola doc special 'Going Viral' ". Realscreen . Retrieved February 8, 2019.

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An intern at USAMRIID who specializes in using the Institute’s super-powerful electron microscope, Geisbert takes the initial pictures that identify the Reston virus as Ebola. Like Peter Jahrling, he is potentially exposed to the…Want to learn the ideas in The Hot Zone better than ever? Read the world’s #1 book summary of The Hot Zone by Richard Preston here. I'm angry. I'm angry and ranty. I feel mislead, manipulated. I was happy to accept that this guy wrote the book 20 years ago, and science hasn't been overly kind to this book. We've learnt heaps and it does date the book somewhat. That's fair enough, and also exciting! Look at how much we have learnt and advanced in 20 years! What tends to impress me about Preston is that he goes to a lot of trouble with his research, and he then presents it in a form that is easy to understand for the most ignorant of laymen. Robert Redford has departed 20th Century Fox's "Crisis in the Hot Zone" ". Variety. varietyultimate.com. August 15, 1994 . Retrieved March 1, 2015. Galbraith, N. S. (1994). "Review of The Hot Zone". BMJ. 309 (6962): 1168–1169. doi: 10.1136/bmj.309.6962.1168a. JSTOR 29725319. S2CID 220184148.

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The Hot Zone is an American anthology drama television series, based on the 1994 non-fiction book of the same name by Richard Preston and airing on National Geographic. Goldberg, Lesley (August 9, 2018). "Former 'Smallville' Showrunners Ink Overall Deal With Fox 21". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved August 9, 2018. Petski, Denise (March 29, 2021). " 'The Hot Zone: Anthrax': Enrico Colantoni To Play Rudy Giuliani, Morgan Kelly Set To Recur In Nat Geo Series". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved June 18, 2021. Sentence-Summary: The Hot Zone is Richard Preston’s version of a terrifying true story of how the Ebola virus came to be, why it’s so deadly and contagious, and how this all reveals our massive vulnerabilities and inefficiencies when it comes to fending off pandemics of all kinds. Stephen King is an idiot if he thinks this is the "One of the most horrifying things I have ever read."

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I read this book while on night watch in the Army. I was eating cheap red licorice at a frenzied pace while I read from sheer nerves. The idea of bleeding out through every bodily opening was terrifying. spoiler alert* This is a good chronology of the outbreak of Ebola Reston among monkeys in Virginia in the late 1980s. (Did not affect humans, although other strains of Ebola do.) There are points where it is very deliberately-paced and other points where it Preston is graphic (readers are warned) about the devastation Ebola wreaks on people. Because of its timing the author also made many parallels with AIDS. The end of the book kind of blames overpopulation, but in fact, much smaller populations of the Earth's people have been affected by plagues for millennia. As the consulting veterinarian at the Reston Primate Quarantine Unit, Dalgard is the first to realize that something is very wrong with the monkey colony. Although he is a reputable and skilled veterinarian, he is… n 1999 when Richard Preston’s The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story was first published, I was driving between to teaching assignments and was listening to this book being read on the air. I never heard the first few minutes of any read nor all of that days reading. I thought I was hearing the latest Michael Crichton medical thriller. The parts I got to hear gave me far more chills than Andromeda Strain. My thing about science fiction is that I have to know how the monster is slain and how the good guys win.

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This article is about the book. For the TV series, see The Hot Zone (American TV series). For other uses, see Hot zone (disambiguation). The emergency turned out to be something of a false alarm, since this virus—now called the Reston virus, closely related to Ebola—appeared harmless to humans. However, the Reston virus is still frightening, if only as a sign of what is possible. For it has a mortality as high as Ebola in monkeys (over 90%) and it can be transmitted through the air. The disease spread throughout the entire research compound, even though the monkeys were housed in different rooms, in individual cages. Obviously, if such a virus arose in humans, we would be in for a rough time.a b Metcalf, Mitch. "ShowBuzzDaily's Monday 11.29.2021 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals Updated". ShowBuzzDaily . Retrieved December 1, 2021. As of writing this summary, the world is in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. As the deadly virus rages on and we grapple with the loss of life, we can learn from looking to other disease outbreaks the world has seen previously. Otherwise well-meaning people; people smart enough to know that what was killing their monkeys in Reston, Virginia was serious, almost caused an outbreak in and around Washington DC. That is a simple statement and around it revolves the larger story. Since the book is quite dated by now, it is worthwhile reading Preston's update on the latest developments pointed to in the thread below by Sarah.