### From Publishers Weekly In 1918, a plague swept across the world virtually without warning, killing healthy young adults as well as vulnerable infants and the elderly. Hospitals and morgues were quickly overwhelmed; in Philadelphia, 4,597 people died in one week alone and bodies piled up on the
Crisis in the red zone: the story of the deadliest ebola outbreak in history, and of the outbreaks
โ Scribed by Richard Preston
- Book ID
- 100647035
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 301 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- NEW YORK
- ISBN
- 0812998847
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โฆ Synopsis
The 2013-2014 Ebola epidemic was the deadliest ever --but the outbreaks continue. Now comes a gripping account of the doctors and scientists fighting to protect us, an urgent wake-up call about the future of emerging viruses--from the #1 bestselling author of The Hot Zone , soon to be a National Geographic original miniseries.
In the taut and suspenseful Crisis in the Red Zone , Preston chronicles the recent Ebola epidemic of 2013-2014--the worst outbreak of hemorrhagic fever in history, where we saw for the first time the specter of Ebola jumping continents, crossing the ocean, and killing people in America. Rich in characters and conflict--physical, emotional, and ethical--Crisis in the Red Zone is a total immersion into one of the great medical calamities of our time.
Preston writes of doctors and nurses in the field putting their own lives on the line, government bureaucrats and NGO administrators moving, often fitfully,...
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