"The Cobra Event", by Richard Preston was incredibly intimidating book that left me in awe till the very last page. It starts off with what appears to be a part of biological experiment in secluded area which hints of immense power of biological weapon. Then we get a piece of history, in which President Richard Nixon confirms the power/danger of these weapons and ends the manufacturing of biological weapons. Then the main story folds out.
For Alice Austen worked for Center for Diseases Control, every day was filled with answering to caller's symptom until she was pushed to investigate a rare case., more specifically autopsy a dead body which suffered from what would be known as Cobra Virus. Her first patience was a little girl who resembled her very much who had a violent seizure and started to gnaw herself. However, she wasn't the only patience, after her, series of people with same diseases had shown up. By the end of countless autopsies and grueling investigation with small......
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