They caused people to view this disease as though it was some sort of preternatural phenomenon." "But Preston's book has all these vivid, gruesome details, and they have given people an exaggerated idea of Ebola over the years. For that reason, "the disease is no longer even classified as a hemorrhagic fever." Sometimes people with Ebola hemorrhage, but in the majority of cases, there's no dramatic bleeding, Quammen says. The experts said, "Ebola is not like how it's portrayed in the book. But as he did his own research and talked to experts, including virologist Karl Johnson, a major character in The Hot Zone ,he heard a different story. It's one of the things that got me interested in Ebola," Quammen says. "I thought The Hot Zone was fascinating, mesmerizing. In his new book about Ebola, science writer David Quammen has some harsh words for the author of another book about the virus - Richard Preston's best-seller The Hot Zone. Goats and Soda The Ebola Outbreak: 'A Dress Rehearsal For The Next Big One'
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