by Richard Preston · Rizzoli · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788817843560
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«Area di contagio. Una storia vera» is Richard Preston's nonfiction chronicle, published by Rizzoli in hardback (300 pages, in Italian).
It recounts the emergence of the Ebola virus from tropical rainforests: it attacks monkeys and humans, with symptoms that are hard to identify and high mortality. It reconstructs a 1989 outbreak in the US, when monkeys from the Philippines brought the virus near Washington. It warns that overpopulation and habitat destruction can bring epidemics.
The original title of the work is The Hot Zone. The Italian translation is by Maria Barbara Piccioli. The work belongs to the Saggi stranieri collection.
For readers interested in science, medicine, and epidemics: scientific journalism with suspense about a real outbreak.
Preston Richard is a civil parish in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England. It includes the village of Endmoor, and the hamlets of Crooklands, Birkrigg Park, Milton, Low Park, and Summerlands.
