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The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Viruses to Come.
This time, Ebola started with a two-year-old child who likely had contact with a wild creature and whose entire family quickly fell ill and died. The ensuing global drama activated health professionals in North America, Europe, and Africa in a desperate race against time to contain the viral wildfire.
By the end as the virus mutated into its deadliest form, and spread farther and faster than ever before 30,000 people would be infected, and the dead would be spread across eight countries on three continents. In this taut and suspenseful medical drama, Richard Preston deeply chronicles the pandemic, in which we saw for the first time the specter of Ebola jumping continents, crossing the Atlantic, and infecting people in America.
Rich in characters and conflict, physical, emotional, and ethical Crisis in the Red Zone is an immersion in one of the great public health calamities of our time. Preston writes of doctors and nurses in the field putting their own lives on the line, of government bureaucrats and NGO administrators moving, often fitfully, to try to contain the outbreak, and of pharmaceutical companies racing to develop drugs to combat the virus. He also explores the charged ethical dilemma over who should and did receive the rare doses of an experimental treatment when they became available at the peak of the disaster.
ISBN/EAN | 9780812988154 |
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Author | Richard Preston |
Publisher | Penguin Random House |
Imprint | Random House Books |
Publication date | 3 Apr 2020 |
Format | Paperback |