Dramatized version of what happened in the Ebola Reston event. Interesting to me, because I used to live and work around there. There is some good information in here about the symptoms of these sorts of viruses, but the line between what we know and we don't know isn't well-defined by this book. Mostly, it gives the context of a single event, and highlights the possible ways that the outbreak might have occurred, and how if we hadn't gotten lucky, there could have been a much more widespread infection due to bad containment.

There's a missed opportunity here to discuss health policies by the US military and the CDC -- what would happen if there were an outbreak? What steps could individuals and communities take in this situation? Weirdly, Preston says that humanity has "amplified" beyond its natural population size and that nature's immune system (of viruses) is fighting us off.