Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come

by Richard Preston

The pattern of the interlocking proteins in a virus is far more complicated than a snowflake.

Dangerously amazing

Somehow, the Broad scientists haven’t gotten around to moving their most important equipment into the expensive crystalline buildings around the corner.

I think I'd get on that

we look closely at this outbreak, the first outbreak of Ebola, we can learn things that may help us prepare for the next emerging virus, whatever it is and whenever it comes.

Covid-19?

“This is how all outbreaks end,” Armand Sprecher, the Doctors’ official in Brussels, said. “It’s always a change in behavior. Ebola outbreaks end when people decide they’re going to end.”

What would it be like if a Level 4 virus event occurred and the Ancient Rule arrived in the supercity of New York? It wouldn’t take much to produce the Ancient Rule in New York City. A dry virus with high mortality that infects people through the lungs. No vaccine, no medical treatment for the virus. If you take the subway, if you ride in an elevator, you can be infected, too.

Too similar for comfort