The Hot Zone

The Hot Zone
ISBN-10
0679430946
ISBN-13
9780679430940
Series
The Hot Zone
Category
Ebola virus disease
Pages
300
Language
English
Published
1994
Publisher
Random House Incorporated
Author
Richard Preston

Description

Describes how a strain of a lethal, infectious, previously unknown virus showed up in 1989 at a Virginia laboratory and the efforts of a military biohazard SWAT team to identify and prevent the spread of the virus

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