Along with character sketches, Preston delves into the moral complexities that can arise in disease research, in this case when an apparent miracle cure-dubbed wow “because everybody was typing Wow in their emails”-yields amazing results in monkeys and the researchers must decide whether to experiment with its efficacy for humans. They include Lisa Hensley, an American researcher and single mother who chooses to travel to Africa to offer what help she can, and Humarr Khan, a physician who, even before the Ebola outbreak, had already decided to stay in his native Sierra Leone and fight Lassa, another virus endemic in West Africa, rather than pursue a lucrative American career. He leavens the subject’s essential grimness with inspiring portrayals of men and women who risked, and sometimes lost, their lives battling the virus’s resurgence in West Africa in 20. Preston follows up his 1994 book The Hot Zone with another terrifying real-life thriller about the threat of viruses-in this case, Ebola.
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