Crisis in the Red Zone
The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come
About the book
The Ebola epidemic of 2013 and 2014, the deadliest on record, is the subject of Richard Preston's account of the doctors and scientists who fought it. The outbreak started with a child of two, probably exposed to a wild creature, whose entire family soon sickened and died. Preston follows health workers from Africa, Europe and North America racing to contain a virus that would infect 30,000 people, kill people in eight countries on three continents and reach America. He writes about doctors and nurses risking their lives, officials and NGO staff struggling to respond, drug companies hurrying to develop treatments, and the dispute over who should get scarce doses of an experimental treatment.
NYU philosophy professor Kwame Anthony Appiah praised it as a story about people rather than pathogens that exposes how fragile public health systems are worldwide, and Elizabeth Kolbert said it reads like a thriller.
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Kwame Anthony Appiah (Author, Professor Of Philosophy And Law at NYU)
Richard Preston’s red zone—beset by ethical, medical, and epidemiological quandaries—shows us at our worst and at our best. This is a story about people, not pathogens, but, even as Preston focuses on one group of clinicians, nurses, and scientists at an underresourced hospital in West Africa, he makes devastatingly clear the worldwide fragility of our public-health systems. Global inequities have epidemiological consequences. This chronicle is haunting, yet not without hope. In spare, gripping prose, he illuminates how our interlinked age can make for enormous vulnerability—but also resilience.
Elizabeth Kolbert (Author)
Crisis in the Red Zone reads like a thriller. That the story it tells is all true makes it all more terrifying, and there’s no one who could tell it better than Richard Preston.
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