Ray Zimmerman

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You may recall his depiction of a Sudanese hospital in which the virus “jumped from bed to bed, killing patients left and right,” creating dementia and chaos, and not only killing patients but causing them to bleed profusely as they died, liquefying their organs, until “people were dissolving in their beds.” You may have shuddered at Preston’s statement that Ebola virus in particular “transforms virtually every part of the body into a digested slime of virus particles.” You may have paused before turning the page when he told you that, after death, an Ebola-infected cadaver “suddenly ...more
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
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