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"The Hot Zone by Richard Preston is an unbelievably true story that makes you really think about the unseen dangers that lurk around us everyday. Preston’s describes the spread of a global disease of a filovirus known as Ebola (Marburg, Ebola Sudan, Ebola Zaire, and Ebola Reston) which are the Biosafety Level 4 Agents. Throughout the book, the spread of this thread virus is traced back to the exploration by a French expatriate named “Charles Monet”. Preston reflects on Monet’s exposure to Ebola back to the Kitum Cave in Kenya which ultimately spreads globally through a not heavily regulated monkey trading ring to its appearance in Reston, Virginia, where it became a worldwide epidemic. Marburg is the least fatal with a fatality rate of twenty-five percent, while Ebola Zaire is the most fatal with a ninety-percent kill rate..."