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I thought 'The Hot Zone' was fascinating, mesmerizing. It's one of the things that got me interested in Ebola.
I was a prodigy who learned how difficult writing was only after getting published. I paid my dues later.
I'm a white, middle-class male who had a happy childhood in Ohio. The world does not need me to be a novelist.
You can't take a knife on a plane anymore, but you can get on carrying a virus.
Ebola isn't a respiratory virus. It doesn't spread through the airborne route. So it's not likely to spread like wildfire around the... →
I am very, very old-fashioned and clumsy. I use those long reporter notebooks. This is what a troglodyte I am. The night before I go off on a trip, I... →
Most Americans know nothing about the African forest, and it seems to them a very scary, spooky dangerous place. I've spent a lot of time in the... →
On April 3, 2014, Jane Goodall turned 80. The iconic blond ponytail has gone gray, but the sparkle of intelligence, sly humor, and fierce dedication... →
One of the things that's particularly nefarious about Ebola is that it continues to live in a dead person for some period of time after death. A... →
The more cases of Ebola infection we have, the more chances there are for the virus to mutate in a particular way that adapts it well to living in... →
There's a belief in some cultures that if a person experiences good fortune in financial terms and does not share the good fortune, when that... →
Viruses have to live somewhere. They can only replicate in living creatures. So, when the Ebola virus disappears between outbreaks, it has to be... →
We're shaking loose viruses and dislodging them from their natural ecological limitations, places where they aren't very abundant and have... →
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