“we could eradicate smallpox from nature, but we could not uproot the virus from the human heart” — Richard Preston Copy Share Image
“Doctors generally consider smallpox to be the worst human disease. It is thought to have killed more people than any other infectious… — Richard Preston Copy Share Image
Occasionally they came to villages, and at each village they encountered a roadblock of fallen trees. Having had centuries of experience with… — Richard Preston Copy Share Image
“Nine out of ten humans killed? And you're not bothered." A look of mysterious thoughtfulness crossed his face. "A virus can be useful to… — Richard Preston Copy Share Image
To mess around with Ebola is an easy way to die. Better to work with something safer, such as anthrax. — Richard Preston Copy Share Image
The best way to know what's in the soup, is to boil yourself in it. — Richard Preston Copy Share Image
“He becomes dizzy and utterly weak, and his spine goes limp and nerveless and he loses all sense of balance. The room is turning… — Richard Preston Copy Share Image
“Ebola Zaire attacks every organ and tissue in the human body except skeletal muscle and bone. It is a perfect parasite because it transforms… — Richard Preston Copy Share Image
“Jahrling sat down at his desk and sighed. There was a landfill of papers on his desk, mostly about smallpox, and it was discouraging.… — Richard Preston Copy Share Image
“we could eradicate smallpox from nature, but we could not uproot the virus from the human heart” — Richard Preston Copy Share Image
“C.J. had spoken longingly of finding the African termite queen, the glistening white sac that was half a foot long and as thick as… — Richard Preston Copy Share Image
During climbs into taller trees, I was occasionally able to look down on the backs of birds, which shine with reflected sunlight as they… — Richard Preston Copy Share Image
The Ludolphian number is fixed in eternity— not a digit out of place, all characters in their proper order, an endless sentence written to… — Richard Preston Copy Share Image
“Your mouth bleeds, and you bleed around your teeth, and you may have hemorrhages from the salivary glands—literally every opening in the body bleeds,… — Richard Preston Copy Share Image
“One room in the hospital had not been cleaned up. No one, not even the nuns, had had the courage to enter the obstetric… — Richard Preston Copy Share Image
It showed a kind of obscenity you see only in nature, an obscenity so extreme that it dissolves imperceptibly into beauty. — Richard Preston Copy Share Image
