The Hot Zone Quotes

“The more one contemplates the hot viruses, the less they look like parasites and the more they look like predators.”
― Richard Preston, The Hot Zone: the Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus

“A hot virus from the rain forest lives within a twenty-four-hour plane flight from every city on earth.”
― Richard Preston, The Hot Zone: the Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus

“From the moment Ebola enters your bloodstream, the war is already lost, you are almost certainly doomed. You can't fight off Ebola the way you fight off a cold. Ebola does in ten days what it takes AIDS ten years to accomplish.”
― Richard Preston, The Hot Zone: the Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus