The Hot Zone
Y is Ebola likened to both nuclear radiation and a “molecular shark”
in book Part 1
in book Part 1
The Ebola virus is airborne so, like radiation, it spreads through the atmosphere making people sick. The are seven mysterious proteins that make up the Ebola-virus particle, they work as a predator within the body like a molecular shark: they consume the body as the virus makes copies of itself.