Such sensational writing! I found myself gleefully chuckling at some of the more outrageously graphic descriptions. Insides liquified in a bag of skin! Remote villages in war-torn Sudan, I absolutely loved reading about Ebola, although this was published over 20 years ago, and I think there is a vaccine for Ebola now, it is still a good yarn and we have not seen. What I found it hard to get past was the animal testing. For example, the wholesale slaughter of the "canaries" in Kitum Cave. I could not get desensitized to it. I wanted the virus to ravage humanity and avenge the monkeys and guinea pigs.
It is terrifying, as the other reviews said because you couldn't imagine a worse way to die. I was also alarmed with the tension between the Army and the CDC. A true epidemic, given the fumbling and the egos of the powers that be as described in the book, would probably result in chunky geysers of blood exploding on our streets, showering sidewalks loaded with burning cars, rotting monkeys, and gooey skin bags of humans lumpy with hard, writhing chunks of spaghetti- shaped murder virus.