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Virus ground zeroEd Regis

Virus ground zero

1996250 pages
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In a destitute hospital in the crowded African city of Kikwit, townspeople, nurses, and doctors are dying of a gruesome disease at the rate of more than a dozen a day. Zaire is on the brink of an explosive epidemic but the outbreak is stopped when experts from the Center for Disease Control(CDC) in Atlanta arrive in the city, reclaim the hospital, and interrupt the chain of virus transmission. With remarkable speed, the CDC's virus detectives trace the outbreak back to its first human case, travel to the viral ground zero where the Ebola virus burst out of the jungle, and trap a vast…

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3 editions
  • Paperback · English · 1998
    Pocket · 256 pages · 9780671023256
  • Other · English · 1999
    Tandem Library · 9780613181525
  • Other · English · 1996
    Pocket Books · 244 pages · 9780671553616
Ebola virus diseaseEpidemiologyVirologyEbola Hemorrhagic FeverPopular WorksNew York Times reviewedFiction, general