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Laffy Kat

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9. The book, "The Hot Zone" is non-fiction.
Tue May 28, 2019, 06:21 AM
May 2019

I didn't see but a little of the TV series premiere last night but it did seem to follow the book so far. In the book, it was not Ebola but another filovirus, Marburg.

If you want to be "pee-your-pants" horrifying, I'd recommend Preston's novel "The Cobra Event". It is about a lunatic biochem-ish scientist/terrorist who tries to infect the population with a hybrid virus made by splicing human and insect viruses. The resulting disease is beyond terrifying. I couldn't put the novel down as much as I wanted to. As I said, it is fiction, but it's not "way out there" fiction.

https://www.fantasticfiction.com/p/richard-preston/cobra-event.htm

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