![]() ![]() There are currently two known genera of them, the Marburgvirus and Ebolavirus, and are mainly found in different species of fruit bats and monkeys. While Preston focuses heavily on the contained outbreak at the Hazleton Research Products facility in Reston in 19, he does provide a shorter account of the previous outbreaks of viruses of a similar strain of the thread-shaped filoviruses. Graphic portrayal of events lends itself for the adaptation to the big screen. The letter, the movie would have been just as frightening, and the book’s Had Petersen decided to follow Preston’s account to The ecological balance is disturbed, potentially leading to a spread with The plots divergeĭrastically, but the common ground is the fact that viruses jump to humans when ![]() Story told by Richard Preston about a contained outbreak of a strain of theĮbola virus in a small Virginia town called Reston. Plotline is heavily fictionalized and changed, the inspiration came from a true Later, the monkey scratches a pet shop owner, whileĭempsey goes on to infect his girlfriend and next thing you know, outbreak. Infecting him with a mysterious Motaba virus that was thought to have beenĮradicated decades earlier. The monkey sneezes directly into Dempsey’s mouth, Home in Africa when Patrick Dempsey poaches a capuchin and trades him in the Petersen’s 1995 movie Outbreak, a deadly virus escapes its rainforest Zone: A Terrifying True Story, Richard Preston, Random House, 1994, pp. ![]()
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