{"product_id":"crisis-in-the-red-zone-9780812988154","title":"Crisis in the Red Zone","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER ? Anurgent wake-up call about the future of emerging viruses and a gripping account of the doctors and scientists fighting to protect us, told through the story of the deadly 2013?2014 Ebola epidemic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e?\u003ci\u003eCrisis in the Red Zone\u003c\/i\u003ereads like a thriller. That the story it tells is all true makes it all more terrifying.??Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize?winning author of\u003ci\u003eThe Sixth Extinction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the #1 bestselling author of\u003ci\u003eThe Hot Zone,\u003c\/i\u003enowa National Geographic original miniseries . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eThis time, Ebola started with a two-year-old child who likely had contact with a wild creature and whose entire family quickly fell ill and died. The ensuing global drama activated health professionals in North America, Europe, and Africa in a desperate race against time to contain the viral wildfire. By the end?as the virus mutated into its deadliest form, and spread farther and faster than ever before?30,000 people would be infected, and the dead would be spread across eight countries on three continents.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this taut and suspenseful medical drama, Richard Preston deeply chronicles the pandemic, in which we saw for the first time the specter of Ebola jumping continents, crossing the Atlantic, and infecting people in America. Rich in characters and conflict?physical, emotional, and ethical?\u003ci\u003eCrisis in the Red Zone\u003c\/i\u003eis an immersion in one of the great public health calamities of our time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreston writes of doctors and nurses in the field putting their own lives on the line, of government bureaucrats and NGO administrators moving, often fitfully, to try to contain the outbreak, and of pharmaceutical companies racing to develop drugs to combat the virus. He also explores the charged ethical dilemma over who should and did receive the rare doses of an experimental treatment when they became available at the peak of the disaster.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCrisis in the Red Zone\u003c\/i\u003emakes clear that the outbreak of 2013?2014 is a harbinger of further, more severe outbreaks, and of emerging viruses heretofore unimagined?in any country, on any continent. In our ever more interconnected world, with roads and towns cut deep into the jungles of equatorial Africa, viruses both familiar and undiscovered are being unleashed into more densely populated areas than ever before. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe more we discover about the virosphere, the more we realize its deadly potential.\u003ci\u003eCrisis in the Red Zone\u003c\/i\u003eis an exquisitely timely book, a stark warning of viral outbreaks to come.","brand":"Random House USA Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405758701911,"sku":"9780812988154","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/crisis-in-the-red-zone-9780812988154","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}