The Hot Zone cover shown above was the original cover published with the book. My alternative cover (shown left) has a monkey as a background that represents the large role monkeys played in the book as agents who carried the disease. I also included a picture of the shepherd's crook which shows what the Ebola virus looks like under an electron microscope.
In The Hot Zone, a man named Charles Monet went into the rainforest at Mount Eglon where he stayed for the night. A few days later, he began to feel bad so he went to the hospital in Nairobi where he was seen by one of the hospital’s best doctors. While he was there, he vomited a great deal, and some of it got into a young doctor’s mouth. Soon after, the doctor died in a similar way as Charles Monet just had. There are a few more deaths like this in parts of Africa. This deadly disease is thought to be Marburg, but it is appearing more severe. There is also a woman who works for the U.S. army named Nancy Jaxx and she has a close experience with this disease while working with monkeys that are infected with Marburg. After leaving USAMMRID because of fear for her safety, she is asked to return and study monkeys that are thought to have another strand of Ebola. Jaxx made a false statement in saying that the disease was dangerous when it really posed no threat to the human population. The U.S. government then went to explore Kittam Cave near Mount Eglon where Charles Monet spent time, hoping to find the origin of the disease, but nothing was found.
In The Hot Zone, a man named Charles Monet went into the rainforest at Mount Eglon where he stayed for the night. A few days later, he began to feel bad so he went to the hospital in Nairobi where he was seen by one of the hospital’s best doctors. While he was there, he vomited a great deal, and some of it got into a young doctor’s mouth. Soon after, the doctor died in a similar way as Charles Monet just had. There are a few more deaths like this in parts of Africa. This deadly disease is thought to be Marburg, but it is appearing more severe. There is also a woman who works for the U.S. army named Nancy Jaxx and she has a close experience with this disease while working with monkeys that are infected with Marburg. After leaving USAMMRID because of fear for her safety, she is asked to return and study monkeys that are thought to have another strand of Ebola. Jaxx made a false statement in saying that the disease was dangerous when it really posed no threat to the human population. The U.S. government then went to explore Kittam Cave near Mount Eglon where Charles Monet spent time, hoping to find the origin of the disease, but nothing was found.