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Richard Preston

Richard Preston
Richard Preston is the bestselling author of The Hot Zone, The Demon in the Freezer, The Wild Trees, and the novel, The Cobra Event. A writer for The New Yorker since 1985, Preston is the only non-doctor to have received the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Champion of Prevention Award. He also holds an award from the American Institute of Physics. Preston lives outside of New York City.


What the Beginning of an Ebola Outbreak Looks Like

Richard Preston Chronicles the Epidemic of 2013
August 2, 2019  By Richard Preston
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