![]() They establish a “red zone,” where confirmed and suspected cases are quarantined: “Patients die in the red zone. In total, more than 11,000 people will die, most of them in Emile’s native Guinea and in the neighboring countries of Sierra Leone and Liberia.Įbola is highly contagious, and it is a brave team of scientists and medics who scramble to try to contain the virus. Within weeks, Emile, his mother, his sister, and his grandmother would all be dead. There, “he might have played with a groggy bat, or he might have gotten some bat blood or bat urine in his eyes or in a cut in his skin.” Emile is the index case the first victim of a virus that has been dormant for decades and for which there is no cure. A toddler called Emile Ouamouno wanders away from his mother to make his own entertainment in the shade of a decaying tree. Preston begins his narrative in Meliandou, a village in the Guéckédou region of Guinea. ![]() ![]() Kirkus Reviews described the book as “an exhaustive and terrifying story of viral mayhem that will rivet readers.” Some reviewers, however, found Preston’s handling of his West African setting “problematic in parts” ( New York Times). Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks To Come (2019), a non-fiction thriller by American author Richard Preston, narrates the 2013 outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in West Africa, focusing on the efforts of doctors and scientists to minimize fatalities and find a cure. ![]()
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