March Book Club: Demon in the Freezer by Richard Preston

If you missed last month’s book club you missed a great discussion on an outstanding book. We loved Global Mom because we could relate to her sense of adventure and her love of being a mom. She is able to open your eyes to the love affair with food that the french have and how to battle governments on naming your child. She battled moving and won with poise. She offered beautiful writing and some very moving thoughts on dealing with the devastating grief on the loss of your child. You will want to read this one. Thanks Debbie. You can follow Melissa at www.facebook.com/globalmomamemoir or melissadaltonbradford.wordpress.com

Our next book will be hosted by Tansy on Wednesday March 4th at 7pm. Her book pick is:

Goodreads says:

The first major bioterror event in the United States-the anthrax attacks in October 2001-was a clarion call for scientists who work with “hot” agents to find ways of protecting civilian populations against biological weapons. In The Demon in the Freezer, his first nonfiction book sinceThe Hot Zone, a #1 New York Times bestseller, Richard Preston takes us into the heart of Usamriid, the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Maryland, once the headquarters of the U.S. biological weapons program and now the epicenter of national biodefense.

A Goodreads reader says:

This is a chilling account of the eradication of smallpox in the 1970s, the Anthrax mailings in 2001, and the possibility of future bioterrorism using genetically-modified strains of smallpox designed to infect even those vaccinated against the disease.
Officially variola majora (smallpox) only exists in freezers in the Centers for Disease Control and in the Russian Vector lab. Through interviews with those involved with the eradication and working to prevent bioterrorism a strong case is made for the Soviet government creating genetically-modified smallpox by the ton into the 1990s and how these virii might currently be in the possession of rogue nations.
You'll also learn why smallpox is most-likely the worst virus ever inflicted upon humankind and is much more dangerous than Ebola, Avian Flu, or AIDS. From 1850-1970 is is estimated that smallpox is responsible for the death of over one billion humans worldwide.

Sounds intriguing!!

Hope to see you there.

Diane