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Personal Narrative: The Hot Zone

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We humans often consider ourselves to be apex predators, invincible thanks to our superior intelligence. Somewhere deep within our subconscious, there is an ever present awareness of danger, but it’s easier to ignore the notion. Thus, "the world is stable and life is secure" isn’t an unreasonable conclusion. At age twelve, I was living in this state of mind, content with not having to face the fragility of my existence, when I picked up Richard Preston’s The Hot Zone. The title page boasted that it was “a terrifying true story”. Try me, I thought. I was not prepared. In 1989, a new strain of ebolavirus wreaked havoc in a monkey house in Reston, Virginia, only a few miles from where I currently live. Ebola Reston has a 90% mortality rate and

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