Why “The Hot Zone” Is The Scariest Book I’ve Ever Read

Hint: It happened twenty minutes from my parents’ house

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“The Hot Zone” by Richard Preston is the scariest book I’ve ever read, because it really happened, and it happened twenty minutes from my parents’ Reston, Virginia condo. It’s a story about an Ebola outbreak in one of the wealthiest cities in Northern Virginia, how the CDC and…