by Richard Preston · Salamandra · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788478881697
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«Zona caliente» is Richard Preston's non-fiction chronicle of the Ebola virus threat, published by Salamandra in paperback (321 pages, in Spanish).
The book reconstructs three real outbreaks: the Marburg virus in Germany in 1967, the Ebola epidemic on the Ebola River in 1976, and its detection in 1989 at a primate facility in Reston, Virginia. Richard Preston narrates the work of virologists and the military to contain the pathogen and describes in detail its effects on the human body.
Originally published in 1994 as «The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus», it received the Evergreen Teen Book Award in 1998.
For readers of popular science and medicine who want to see how a real infectious outbreak is investigated and contained.
Preston Richard is a civil parish in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England. It includes the village of Endmoor, and the hamlets of Crooklands, Birkrigg Park, Milton, Low Park, and Summerlands.
