The Hot Zone
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Read between June 20, 2021 - July 12, 2023
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On the road, he realized that he had forgotten to call his wife to tell her that he would be late. He stopped at a Giant Food supermarket and bought her a bunch of cut flowers, carnations and mums.
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rapid Elisa test,
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It smelled of bat.
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Viruses like dry air and dust and darkness, and most of them don’t survive long when exposed to moisture and sunlight.
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sunlight, which would break apart the virus’s genetic material.
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appears to be a natural consequence of the ruin of the tropical biosphere.
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The tropical rain forests are the deep reservoirs of life on the planet,
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Nature has interesting ways of balancing itself.
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The earth is attempting to rid itself of an infection by the human parasite.
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You could say that rain-forest viruses are extremely good at looking after their own interests.
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Life had established itself in the monkey house. Ebola had risen in these rooms, flashed its colors, fed, and subsided into the forest. It will be back.