I think we're going to see an emergency that could really challenge the global medical system and cost a lot of human lives.Ī: On the individual level, make sure people are properly vaccinated. Then you remove basic sanitation and medical services, and you have a ticking biological time bomb. It's like you take the entire population of California and put it in one city. We're creating these massive urban areas in the Third World.
Q: In Panic, you quote an Ebola expert: "In the battle between the doctors and the bugs, in the long run, I'd put my money on the bugs." Does this mean we're all doomed to die from some horrible virus?Ī: I don't believe in a biological apocalypse, but I think there is stormy biological weather ahead as the human population continues to grow. In his new book, Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science (Random House, $26), he continues to probe nature's stranger side, including what DNA tastes like and a disease that compels people to chew their own flesh.
— - With his 1994 sensation The Hot Zone, science writer Richard Preston terrified millions by describing how the Ebola virus left victims hemorrhaging from every orifice.
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