出版社: Random House
副标题: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come
出版年: 2019-7-23
页数: 400
ISBN: 9780812998832
内容简介 · · · · · ·
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An urgent wake-up call about the future of emerging viruses and a gripping account of the doctors and scientists fighting to protect us, told through the story of the deadly 2013–2014 Ebola epidemic
“Crisis in the Red Zone reads like a thriller. That the story it tells is all true makes it all more terrifying.”—Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize–winn...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An urgent wake-up call about the future of emerging viruses and a gripping account of the doctors and scientists fighting to protect us, told through the story of the deadly 2013–2014 Ebola epidemic
“Crisis in the Red Zone reads like a thriller. That the story it tells is all true makes it all more terrifying.”—Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction
From the #1 bestselling author of The Hot Zone, now a National Geographic original miniseries . . .
This time, Ebola started with a two-year-old child who likely had contact with a wild creature and whose entire family quickly fell ill and died. The ensuing global drama activated health professionals in North America, Europe, and Africa in a desperate race against time to contain the viral wildfire. By the end—as the virus mutated into its deadliest form, and spread farther and faster than ever before—30,000 people would be infected, and the dead would be spread across eight countries on three continents.
In this taut and suspenseful medical drama, Richard Preston deeply chronicles the pandemic, in which we saw for the first time the specter of Ebola jumping continents, crossing the Atlantic, and infecting people in America. Rich in characters and conflict—physical, emotional, and ethical—Crisis in the Red Zone is an immersion in one of the great public health calamities of our time.
Preston writes of doctors and nurses in the field putting their own lives on the line, of government bureaucrats and NGO administrators moving, often fitfully, to try to contain the outbreak, and of pharmaceutical companies racing to develop drugs to combat the virus. He also explores the charged ethical dilemma over who should and did receive the rare doses of an experimental treatment when they became available at the peak of the disaster.
Crisis in the Red Zone makes clear that the outbreak of 2013–2014 is a harbinger of further, more severe outbreaks, and of emerging viruses heretofore unimagined—in any country, on any continent. In our ever more interconnected world, with roads and towns cut deep into the jungles of equatorial Africa, viruses both familiar and undiscovered are being unleashed into more densely populated areas than ever before.
The more we discover about the virosphere, the more we realize its deadly potential. Crisis in the Red Zone is an exquisitely timely book, a stark warning of viral outbreaks to come.
作者简介 · · · · · ·
Richard Preston is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of ten books, including The Hot Zone, The Wild Trees, and The Demon in the Freezer. Preston has taught nonfiction writing at Princeton University and the University of Iowa, and he is the recipient of many prizes and honors, including the Champion of Prevention Award of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. His books h...
Richard Preston is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of ten books, including The Hot Zone, The Wild Trees, and The Demon in the Freezer. Preston has taught nonfiction writing at Princeton University and the University of Iowa, and he is the recipient of many prizes and honors, including the Champion of Prevention Award of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. His books have been published in more than thirty languages.
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2 有用 头就这么疼星人 2019-11-23 15:26:26
病毒突变,从极高致命性变成了更容易传播的中等致命性,从小规模爆发变成了大规模爆发,考验的不但是应对手段和医疗水平,更是习俗和道德。非洲西部已经算是还凑合能过日子的地方了,局势尚且如此糜烂,最近闹得更加可怕的刚果kivo真是不堪设想。另外,作者只字不提中国医务人员在非洲西部抗击埃博拉中做出的贡献,我觉得这是不对的。
0 有用 阿蒙 2023-06-06 02:41:54 美国
开头惊艳,跌宕起伏扣人心弦,中间甚疲软甚至有点流水账之嫌。
5 有用 tumbler爱自由 2020-05-05 23:53:08
虽然新冠病毒级别没埃博拉那么高吧,但看到最后作者预言为level-4病毒来袭(以感染了100万以上的美国人为例)做好准备的时候还是觉得太魔幻了
0 有用 SammyRabbit 2020-11-24 21:25:03
这是我从它还没出版就开始期待读的书,不知道为什么出版后我读了一半然后就忘记它了,这两天重新开始看,看的很快,作者确实很擅长写Non-fiction,这本书读起来比The Hot Zone更好看。
0 有用 Answer Lu 2024-01-17 19:36:00 上海
too many useless details.
0 有用 Answer Lu 2024-01-17 19:36:00 上海
too many useless details.
0 有用 阿蒙 2023-06-06 02:41:54 美国
开头惊艳,跌宕起伏扣人心弦,中间甚疲软甚至有点流水账之嫌。
0 有用 hanena 2021-11-14 01:42:30
和前一本一样,节奏感把握得太好了。情节没有前一本惊心动魄,但最后无国界医生讨论该不该把未经人体实验的特效药给感染了的医生那部分特别精彩。黑人医生和护士们相继去世感人落泪。
1 有用 猫咪建筑师 2020-11-26 16:25:00
剧透https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(14)62417-X/fulltext
0 有用 SammyRabbit 2020-11-24 21:25:03
这是我从它还没出版就开始期待读的书,不知道为什么出版后我读了一半然后就忘记它了,这两天重新开始看,看的很快,作者确实很擅长写Non-fiction,这本书读起来比The Hot Zone更好看。