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Richard Preston

Science World

Inside the Ebola Wars

The author of The Hot Zone on how geneticists can help contain the current outbreak.

Richard Preston New Yorker Oct 2014 40min Permalink

Crime Science

The Demon in the Freezer

How smallpox went from eradicated disease to the ideal weapon of bioterrorists.

Richard Preston New Yorker Jul 1999 50min Permalink