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Angela
Mar 19, 2020 rated it really liked it
Exciting, informative, well written, and a bit scarily relevant considering the current climate (coronavirus). The sections on smallpox and the anthrax attacks felt, to me, like they wanted to be two separate books. Smallpox was giving Preston an excuse to write about the anthrax and vice versa. It was not as good as The Hot Zone, but I still really liked it.

Smallpox. What a horror of a virus! I had no idea about the “black pox” variation of this disease. Truly a terrible, terrible way to die. M
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Nancy Thomas
Dec 07, 2017 rated it liked it