The Hot Zone
Ebola is both linked to nuclear radiation and "molecular shark" in the book. Explain why in detail.
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From the text:
The seven mysterious proteins that, assembled together, make up the Ebola-virus particle, work as a relentless machine, a molecular shark, and they consume the body as the virus makes copies of itself. That was about three tons of monkey meat—a biological nuclear reactor having a core meltdown. As the core of monkeys burned, the agent would amplify itself tremendously.
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Preston, Richard. The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (p. 103). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. Preston, Richard. The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (p. 286). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
