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by Marburg
For those of you who can't get enough of the Burning Zone, we offer The Reading Corner. In each issue of "The Dawn" this column will list 3-4 books in the same vein as the Burning Zone that you might enjoy. For this issue we have a nice test tube of fiction and non-fiction to consume.
Unless noted otherwise, all books listed here are available in paperback.
Carriers by Patrick Lynch, Fiction
Published by Berkely Books, 1995
$6.99 U.S. $8.99 Canada
An outbreak of a deadly hemorrhagic fever in an isolated research facility, two missing children result in a hair raising expedition deep into the rain forests of Sumatra as American biological warfare experts race to track down patient zero.
Ebola by William T. Close, M.D., Fiction
Published by Ivy Books, 1995
$5.99 U.S. $6.99 Canada
First published in Finish as "Yambuku: The story of the Ebola virus" in 1991 by Uitgerveij De Fontein, Baarn Holland. Dr. William T. Close (Glenn Close's father) spent sixteen years in Zaire (now known as the Republic of Congo). This is his fictionalized account of the first outbreak of the deadly filovirus known as Ebola-Zaire. Dr. Close was one of the countless medical, scientific, and lay people who desperately worked to contain Ebola in 1976.
Mount Dragon by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, Fiction;
Published by TOR Books, 1996
$6.99 U.S. $8.99 Canada
Two doctor/scientists involved in genetic engineering at Genedyne's remote desert facility, Mount Dragon, discover not even Level5 and bluesuits can protect a person from being infected by the X-Flu or contaminated by an earlier product made at GeneDyne. The problem is, neither have any cure or vaccine. Those infected by X-Flu die within hours. Those injected with a second GeneDyne product become paranoid. Only Guy Carson and Susana Cabeza de Vaca have learned the ugly truth. Can they find the solution before tragedy strikes the world?
Virus Hunter: Thirty years of battling hot viruses around the
world, by C.J. Peters and Mark Olshaker, Non-Fiction
Published by Anchor Books Doubleday (Hardback), 1997
$23.95 U.S. $32.95 Canada
This is the story of the most deadly viruses in the world. C.J. Peters with over thirty years experience fighting the battles depicted in The Burning Zone, has fought all the viruses for which Dr. Edward Marcase supposedly has antibodies. He talks frankly of containing an outbreak of hemorrhagic fever in Bolivia, the hunt for the Hantavirus in the southwestern U.S., researching Ebola and countless other lesser known diseases such as Lassa Fever, Marburg, and Machupo.
Microbe Hunters, by Paul de Kruif with intro by F. Gonzalez-Crussi, Non-Fiction
Published by A Harvest Book Harcourt Brace & Company, 1996
$13 US $18 Canada
Also available in an earlier edition by the same name for $7.95 U.S.
The world of scientists, bacteriologists, doctors and medical technicians and their discovery of microbes and vaccines is discussed from a historical perspective. Paul de Kruif gives an indepth look at what life was like before the discovery of microscopic organisms and their impact on today.
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