Just like a Hollywood movie, Richard Preston's book The Hot Zone tells a story of an almost viral outbreak in suburban Washington, D.C. Unfortunately, unlike a movie made for entertainment, The Hot Zone recalls the events that led to Americas encounter with the Ebola virus.
Richard Preston takes you back to the origins of the virus to give you some history, and to show just how devastating the virus is. The viruses he tells about are called Marburg and Ebola. Marburg the first of the viruses first appeared in 1967, in a vaccine factory in Marburg, Germany. Marburg virus killed seven people, which was a quarter of those infected. Next came the Ebola outbreak of Sudan in 1976. Ebola Sudan spread rapidly from village to village, killing half of its victims. Then two months later, an even deadlier strain of Ebola hit Zaire, erupting simultaneously in some 50 villages, killing nine out of ten people it infected. His mastery of description is used throughout the book to explain the devastation a person goes through once infected with one of these deadly viruses. He tells specific stories that take make you feel like you are right there witnessing everything taking place. Like the case of a Frenchman, Charles Monet, which lived in Kenya along the Nzoia River. Monet was a loner that is believed to have contacted the virus during his visit to the Kitum Cave January 1980. His symptoms started out to be "flu-like" but later turned more severe. First his face turned yellow and had red starlike speckles on it. His eyes popped out of his head and turned blood red. Preston goes on to tell how Monet's organs were turning to mush while he walked around breeding the virus. .
The Hot Zone takes you into the laboratories to give you some insight on how scientist deal with these deadly viruses on a daily basis in hopes of finding cures. One such laboratory is at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRID), at Fort Detrick.
The Hot Zone & Outbreak "The kill rate in humans infected with Ebola Zaire is 9 out of 10. ... In Richard Preston's The Hot Zone, this type of characterization is displayed. ... Characterization such as this is why The Hot Zone was a best seller. ... Sensory imaging is what makes The Hot Zone a book worthy of recognition. ... Outbreak has much less scientific information than The Hot Zone. ...
These are the words describing a number one New York Times Bestseller, The Hot Zone. ... The Hot Zone tells this dramatic story, giving a hair-raising account of the appearance of rare and lethal viruses and their "crashes" into the human race. Shocking, frightening, and impossible to ignore, The Hot Zone proves that truly really is scarier than fiction." In his high- suspense, terrifying non- fiction novel, The Hot Zone, Richard Preston delivers quite a thriller. ... Of course, for those of you who get scared easily, The Hot Zone is definitely not for you. ...
The area around the subsiding plate is the subduction zone. The subduction zone is the seismically and volcanically active area nearby a tectonic plate that is submerging below another tectonic plate. The subduction zone supports the theory of plate tectonics by showing wherever two plates collide and one subsides, volcanoes are present. Also, the sedimentary rock found on the top and bottoms of plates is also present in the magma that is released in subduction zones in the Pacific Ocean. ... Wilson was the first to speculate about the hot spots, or thermal plums. ...
First, I must state that this may not be what you are looking for in any way. I might also add that my selection of literature is neither artistic nor philosophical. It did, however, move me. I read The Hot Zone by Michael Crichton in 1995, and throughout my post-Hot Zone series of reads, it stil...
During this time they are in their homes with the heater on sipping on a cup of hot cocoa. ... Unfortunately, when you enter the "family zone", California being at the top of your list of places to live is just unrealistic. ... Even though the cost of living in California is very expensive, presently I have not entered into the "family zone" of the corporate world. ...
A hot spot is an abnormal hot rising area of the mantle that supplies the lava for volcanoes. If at the same time a hot spot is directly below a thinned crust then the magma in the hot spot may hold too much pressure to be held by the thinner weakened crust. ... Therefore the frequency of earthquakes caused in ocean basins by hot spots is very low. ... These forces result in the triggering of the earthquakes within the subduction zones. The frequency of earthquakes in Subduction zones is about the same as that in the mid-ocean ridges. ...
These convection zones cause the mantle to circulate and apply tensional forces to plates. ... As well as earthquakes happening at ridges, they can happen at hot spots. ... If by chance a hot spot occurs under this weak part of the crust then the magma might provide the extra needed pressure to force the magma to the surface. ... At this zone of plate activity earthquakes can once again happen are varying depths. ... In this type of boundary, the focus can occur anywhere in this zone and so the earthquakes can be shallow, intermediate or deep. ...
