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“When people asked him why he didn’t work with those viruses, he replied, I don’t particularly feel like dying.”

September 27, 2017 by Caitlin_D Leave a Comment

THIS is how you write gripping medical related non-fiction! Part medical mystery, part horror story and 100% true. While it wasn’t the barrel of laughs Get Well Soon was earlier this year it was infinitely more entertaining than Pox, despite scaring me shitless about ever going to Africa or getting close to a monkey. This isn’t a book for everyone because, well, Ebola is creepy. Even now there isn’t a surefire cure and the path to death is a gruesome, bloody mess. The term “liquefied” is used several […]

Filed Under: Health, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Ebola, Richard Preston, The Hot Zone

Caitlin_D's CBR9 Review No:100 · Genres: Health, Non-Fiction · Tags: Ebola, Richard Preston, The Hot Zone ·
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