Billions of people around the globe have been ordered to shelter in place. There are now over 18.6 million cases worldwide and over 700 000 deaths. There are many differences between SARS-CoV-2 and the Ebola virus however, the lessons from the book are even more relevant today as we fight the COVID-19 pandemic.Īt the time of writing (early August), it has been approximately 8 months since a pneumonia of unknown cause first appeared in Wuhan City in Hubei Province, China. “Ebola Zaire is a slate-wiper in humans,” he explains his 1992 New Yorker article, “Crisis in the Hot Zone,” on which the book was based. The book is a nonfiction account of how researchers, locals, and governments fought one of the deadliest known viruses-the Ebola virus. The earth is mounting an immune response against the human species,” wrote Richard Preston, author of the 1994 best seller The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story.
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