
The Hot Zone
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Although this book is fiction it reads like reality. It is based on the original "hot virus" scare in the 80's, ebola and marburg. A great read and very scary.

Caught at the OBCZ at Starbucks in Olde Raleigh Village on Edwards Mill Road. I have been curious about this book since seeing references to the Marburg virus in some television series in the late 1990s.

hardcover.
from an inside sleeve:
The virus kills nine out of ten of its victims so quickly and gruesomely that even biohazard experts are terrified. It is airborne, it is extremely contagious, and it is about to burn through the suburbs of a major American city. Is there any way to stop it? In the winter of 1989, at an Army research facility outside Washington DC, this doomsday scenario seemed like a real possibility. A SWAT team of soldiers and scientists wearing biohazard space suits had been organized to stop the outbreak of an exotic "hot" virus. The grim operation went on in secret for eighteen days, under dangerous conditions for which there was no precedent. Nonfiction.
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Compelling read.
from an inside sleeve:
The virus kills nine out of ten of its victims so quickly and gruesomely that even biohazard experts are terrified. It is airborne, it is extremely contagious, and it is about to burn through the suburbs of a major American city. Is there any way to stop it? In the winter of 1989, at an Army research facility outside Washington DC, this doomsday scenario seemed like a real possibility. A SWAT team of soldiers and scientists wearing biohazard space suits had been organized to stop the outbreak of an exotic "hot" virus. The grim operation went on in secret for eighteen days, under dangerous conditions for which there was no precedent. Nonfiction.
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Compelling read.

Journal Entry 4 by
waterfalling
at Book Thing of Baltimore Inc (No longer taking donations) in Baltimore, Maryland USA on Monday, October 19, 2009


Released 15 yrs ago (10/19/2009 UTC) at Book Thing of Baltimore Inc (No longer taking donations) in Baltimore, Maryland USA
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Sent to The Book Thing.
You have found a traveling book. You may leave a journal entry (anonymously, if you wish) to let me know that you have found this book. Check back in later to let us know what you thought of the book and if you plan on passing it on or 'releasing it back into the wild'.

Picked this up at The Book Thing after dropping off a bunch of my own BC books! Planning to swap on Swap-Bot.com or find an appropriate place to release it into the wild.

Journal Entry 6 by mel21clc at Book Thing of Baltimore Inc (No longer taking donations) in Baltimore, Maryland USA on Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Released 14 yrs ago (10/24/2010 UTC) at Book Thing of Baltimore Inc (No longer taking donations) in Baltimore, Maryland USA
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Dropped off at the Book Thing of Baltimore (www.bookthing.org) for another reader to find!

I found this at the Book Thing of Baltimore on October 30. The Book Thing prefers that BookCrossing books travel away from/not be donated to The Book Thing, so I took home the books I came across in order to find them new homes.
I'll save this for the BookCrossing Convention in Washington, D.C., in 2011 as it takes place in this area.
I'll save this for the BookCrossing Convention in Washington, D.C., in 2011 as it takes place in this area.

Journal Entry 8 by BCinDC at 2011 BookCrossing Convention in -- Mail or by hand-rings, RABCK, meetings, etc, Virginia USA on Monday, January 17, 2011
Released 13 yrs ago (4/15/2011 UTC) at 2011 BookCrossing Convention in -- Mail or by hand-rings, RABCK, meetings, etc, Virginia USA
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This book will be released at the 2011 BookCrossing Convention.

Journal Entry 9 by BCinDC at Gaithersburg City Hall Concert Pavilion And Grounds in Gaithersburg, Maryland USA on Thursday, May 19, 2011
Released 13 yrs ago (5/21/2011 UTC) at Gaithersburg City Hall Concert Pavilion And Grounds in Gaithersburg, Maryland USA
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This book was one of many leftover after the 2011 BookCrossing Convention in Washington, DC. It is being released to the Gaithersburg Book Festival so it can find a new reader!