Ebola does in ten days what it takes AIDS ten years to accomplish.

It can look easy to go into the field and get samples, but it can be deadly if you don’t know what you’re doing.

The more one learns about something, the less fear it holds.

Life is beautiful, isn’t it? But to be human is to suffer. We are not the only ones who suffer.

In biosafety level 4, anyone dropping a bag of red candy in a hallway could touch off a disaster.

In biology, nothing is clear, everything is too complicated, everything is a mess, and just when you think you understand something, you peel off a layer and find deeper complications beneath.

Nature is extremely adventuresome, and it will always produce things that are beyond our imagining.

One day in the rainy season the ants came forward in hellish yellow swarms... but they were flying ants, not killer ants.

Death appeared to have been so sudden and so unexpected that the eyes were still wide, the expression still intelligent, still questioning.

Under normal conditions, a spilled tube of Ebola virus, or an accident that sprays virus, are potentially lethal events.

The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus