ABOUT BOOK
Crisis in the Red Zone (2019) presents an engrossing account from the front lines of the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa. From the first infected patient through the many lives claimed before the crisis was resolved, this is a tragic and hopeful story of what happens when a hidden and dangerous virus reveals itself.
ABOUT AUTHOR
Richard Preston is an award-winning author who has taught nonfiction writing at both the University of Iowa and Princeton University. His previous books include The Hot Zone (1994), The Wild Trees (2007) and The Demon in the Freezer (2007).
Learn what happened on the ground during the 2014 outbreak
Like many people around the world, you may have been glued to the news as the Ebola crisis unfolded in the summer of 2014. But only now, piecing together hundreds of interviews with the survivors, can we truly understand what happened in West Africa.
Some mysteries remain, but many answers have emerged thanks to genetic research and the blood samples that were taken throughout the epidemic. Scientists have identified precisely where the disease started, where it moved and how it changed.
This is a tale of the people on the front lines, the sacrifices that were made trying to control an increasingly desperate situation and how this virus preys upon the very behaviors that define our humanity.
In the Hot Zone with Virus X – Richard Preston
A short warning before we begin: These descriptions of blood, death, miscarriage and abortion
1) Who the unlikely first victim of the Ebola outbreak was?
2) Which experimental drug saved the lives of health workers in the crisis zone?
2) How the outbreaks in 1976 and 2014 required the same solution?