The Hot Zone ??

[Jon Inazaki]

In article <1995Feb7.143410.1 at cc.uvsc.edu>, parkerbr at cc.uvsc.edu wrote:

> I have read "The Hot Zone". I am a virologist. I do not know much about Ebola
> (who does?) but I can say that the book was obviously not written by a
> scientist. It _is_ a bit sensationalized. Not as much as some would have done.
> I am mostly disturbed by some of the scientific flaws in the book.
> 
> Don't believe everything you read!

No I don't, which is why I've bumbled into this newsgroup to ask about it.
It would seem to me that, had the book limited itself to the ebola reston
incident, it would have been very dry indeed. Hence, the need for fully a
fourth of the book to be devoted to "background" on the Marburg and other
ebola strains; the one's that are contagious to humans.

I am curious though about what scientific flaws were there in the book.Not
being in the field (AP Biology in high school is as far as I got), I can't
spot them unless they're obvious to a 6 year old.

jon