The discovery of Ebola Reston virus among imported monkeys in Reston, Virginia.The author describes in great detail the progress of the disease, from the initial headache and backache, to the final stage in which Monet's internal organs fail and he 'bleeds out' (i.e., hemorrhages extensively) in a waiting room in a Nairobi hospital. Preston accounts the story of 'Charles Monet' (a pseudonym), who caught Marburg from a cave nearby his home in central Africa. 'The Shadow of Mount Elgon', delves into the history of these infective agents as well as speculation about the origins of AIDS.Along with describing the history of these two illnesses, Preston describes an incident in which Ebola was suspected to be found in a Reston, Virginia, monkey storage warehouse. The filoviruses Ebola and Marburg are both Biosafety Level 4 agents (because they are extremely human lethal and very infectious), that are often found in central Africa. The basis of the book was research done by Preston for his 1992 New Yorker article 'Crisis in the Hot Zone'. The Hot Zone, A Terrifying True Story is a best-selling 1994 non-fiction bio-thriller by Richard Preston describing the origins of incidents involving the hemorrhagic fevers caused by Ebola and Marburg viruses.

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