Veronica’s Reviews > The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus > Status Update

Pause to shout out Milton again

I feel SO bad for poor dalgard breaking down from extreme stress at this point, especially knowing ahead of time the “plot twist” in this book regarding Ebola Reston based on the history of how this incident actually panned out, these poor dudes

Whether it’s based on real interviews or completely made up, throughout the whole book the author has been going into truly excessive irrelevant detail about the personal lives of the Jaaxes apparently for the sole purpose of making them look like horribly neglectful parents. Nancy is thus far portrayed as some combination of adrenaline junkie / glory hound, whole Jerry swings from controlling to apathetic to —

I was braced for the fast and loose scientific accuracy but I’m still not over the obviously fictionalized account of deceased persons’ activities being presented as fact, when they were alone in the time frame recounted and were stated to have died without being interviewed