Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come
基本信息
Format:Paperback 400 pages
Publisher:Random House Publishing Group
Imprint:Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN:9780812988154
Published:3 Apr 2020
Weight:296g
Dimensions:134 x 202 x 25 (mm)
Language:English
页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准
书籍简介
世卫组织认为，2014年的埃博拉疫情显示，“对于应对严重的流感大流行和全球公共卫生突发事件，世界并没有做好准备”。
埃博拉流行病更像是某种模式的一部分，这是一种新发病毒跳出生态系统后造成的震荡波。病毒在人群中自我增殖，吞噬生命，遭遇人类这个物种的反抗，最终偃旗息鼓。然而，下一个震荡波会是什么？
随着过去渐渐变成未来，现在，我打算预测一场全球性爆发，由某种生物安全四级的新发病毒引起，它能通过空气在人与人之间传播，没有疫苗，用现代医药无法医治，用术语说，这是一起四级事件。
约翰·霍普金斯大学公共卫生学院最近完成的一项研究表明，美国所有医院加起来一共只有142张红区床位可以收治感染出血热病毒（例如埃博拉）的患者，另有不到400张红区床位可以收治感染空气传播的高危病毒的患者。
因此，假如爆发四级事件，整个美国加起来也只有542张红区床位。
我们必须问一个问题：假如一种四级新发病毒扩散到北美或任何一个大陆的百万级人群之中，医院是否有能力处理这么多的患者并照护他们？假如感染人数超过百万，流行病学家是否有能力追踪并打破传染链？
现在，守护在病毒圈大门口的战士明白他们面对的敌人强大得可怕，这场战争势必旷日持久。他们的许多武器终将失效，但另一些会开始发挥作用。人类在这场战斗中占据一定的优势，拥有病毒所缺少的某些要素，其中包括自我意识、团队作战的能力和愿意牺牲的精神。
既然病毒可以突变，那么我们也能改变。
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. The 2013-2014 Ebola epidemic was the deadliest ever—but the outbreaks continue. Now comes the gripping account of the doctors and scientists fighting to protect us, an urgent wake-up call about the future of emerging viruses—from the #1 bestselling author of The Hot Zone, now a National Geographic original miniseries.
In the taut and suspenseful Crisis in the Red Zone, Preston chronicles the recent Ebola epidemic of 2013-2014—the worst outbreak of hemorrhagic fever in history, where we saw for the first time the specter of Ebola jumping continents, crossing the ocean, and killing people in America. Rich in characters and conflict—physical, emotional, and ethical—Crisis in the Red Zone is a total immersion into one of the great medical calamities of our time.
Preston writes of doctors and nurses in the field putting their own lives on the line, government bureaucrats and NGO administrators moving, often fitfully, to try to contain the outbreak, and of the pharmaceutical companies racing to develop drugs to combat the virus. Preston also explores the charged ethical dilemma over who should and did receive the rare experimental doses when they became available.
Crisis in the Red Zone makes clear that the outbreak of 2013-2014 did not mark the end of a disease cycle, but rather is a harbinger of further, more severe outbreaks, and of emerging viruses heretofore unimagined—in any country, on any continent. Now, in our ever more interconnected world, with roads and towns cut deep into the jungles of Africa, viruses both familiar and undiscovered are being unleashed into more densely populated areas than ever before. This time, Ebola’s first victim was a two-year-old child who likely contracted the virus by consuming bush meat, and whose entire family quickly fell ill and died. The ensuing global drama activated health professionals in the United States, Europe, and Africa in a desperate race against time to contain the viral wildfire.
With the virosphere more deadly than ever, Crisis in the Red Zone is an exquisitely timely book, both intimately chronicling the largest Ebola outbreak in history, and warning of viral outbreaks to come.
作者简介
理查德·普雷斯顿 Richard Preston，美国非虚构作家，《纽约客》撰稿人。他在普林斯顿大学获得了英文博士学位，师从著名的非虚构作家约翰·麦克菲。普雷斯顿擅长以非虚构手法处理科学题材。1984年，他出版了非虚构作品《第一道光》，这本天文学题材的书获得了美国物理学学会的科学写作奖。十年后，普雷斯顿推出了另一部科学写作经典《血疫》，这本描写埃博拉病毒缘起的作品获得了巨大的成功，长踞《纽约时报》非虚构类畅销书榜首达61周。普雷斯顿因此获得了美国疾病控制与预防中心颁发的防疫斗士奖，他也是有史以来唯一以非医师身份获奖的得主。
Richard Preston is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Hot Zone, as well as Panic in Level 4, The Cobra Event, and The Demon in the Freezer, also New York Times bestsellers. A writer for The New Yorker since 1985, Preston won the American Institute of Physics Award and is the only non-doctor ever to have received the CDC’s Champion of Prevention award. He has an asteroid named after him and lives outside of New York City.
