Ebola by David Quammen6/28/2023 ![]() It is, as a matter of fact, on the bestseller list again right now, and the New Yorker (which long ago published the piece that led to the book) has been publishing Preston’s reporting on the current crisis. But they’re rather thin on the ground at the moment, and have their own drawbacks, too.Īll current writing on Ebola has to reckon with a single, largely outdated book: Richard Preston’s The Hot Zone, an instant No1 bestseller when it was published in 1994. So, better to stick to the actual published journalistic books about the matter. This is all grimly amusing stuff, and proof positive that a certain paranoid slice of the American public is descending into panic. ![]() The helpful “tips” such books provide include careful instructions on corpse disposal. They have titles like Ebola: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid and The Ebola Outbreak: How to Prepare, Protect, Diagnose, Treat, and Survive an Ebola Pandemic. Search for Ebola on Amazon and you’ll wade through a pack of self-published books by doomsday preppers who are convinced that the CDC is hiding the true spread of the outbreak from the American public. On the one hand, that’s self-publishing’s fault. ![]()
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