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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 ...more
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 ...more

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