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“When people asked him why he didn't work with those viruses, he replied, I don't particularly feel like dying.”
― Richard Preston, The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus

“One room in the hospital had not been cleaned up. No one, not even the nuns, had had the courage to enter the obstetric ward. When Joel Breman and the team went in, they found basins of foul water standing among discarded, bloodstained syringes. The room had been abandoned in the middle of childbirths, where dying mothers had aborted fetuses infected with Ebola. The team had discovered the red chamber of the virus queen at the end of the earth, where the life-form had amplified through mothers and their unborn children. (95)”
― Richard Preston, The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus

“Occasionally they came to villages, and at each village they encountered a roadblock of fallen trees. Having had centuries of experience with the smallpox virus, the village elders had instituted their own methods for controlling the virus, according to their received wisdom, which was to cut their villages off from the world, to protect their people from a raging plague. It was reverse quarantine, an ancient practice in Africa, where a village bars itself from strangers during a time of disease, and drives away outsiders who appear. (94)”
― Richard Preston, The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus

“C.J. had spoken longingly of finding the African termite queen, the glistening white sac that was half a foot long and as thick as a bratwurst, bursting with eggs and creamy insect fat, the queen you ate alive and whole, and she was said to twitch as she went down your throat. (188)”
― Richard Preston, The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus