![]() Listening to the news, many Americans must have felt a small version of Preston’s “intoxicating rush of fear” that the protection layer had been breached. You could feel a shiver of panic coursing through the American body politic this week as the country struggled with a metastatic set of crises: the spread of the Ebola virus, the surge of Islamic State terrorists and the buckling global economy. “It was an intoxicating rush of fear, a sensation that all I needed to do was relax and let the fear take hold, and I could drift away on waves of panic, screaming for help.” “I started to feel giddy,” Preston wrote in “ Panic in Level 4,” a 2008 collection of essays. ![]() Richard Preston, whose 1994 book “ The Hot Zone” brought the Ebola virus terrifyingly to life for readers, once described how, during his research, his biohazard suit had ripped open, exposing him to a potentially fatal toxin. ![]()
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