The author of that New Yorker report in
#42, Richard Preston, wrote
The Hot Zone, an unforgettable true book about Ebola's close cousin visiting the DC area in 1989. It's
the great read for anyone concerned about Ebola. It struck literally too close in time for me. Had the real underlying events taken place 6 months later, the chief protagonist, in normal military position rotations, would have been my former next door neighbor. I trust he would have done as well as his predecessor, but am glad he didn't have the chance.
What’s the truly disturbing aspect of that book is just how many times CDC personnel broke protocol. And broke it with a disease they suspected was a level 4 pathogen in humans.
But failed to tell anyone that needed to know because they didn’t want to start a panic.