Panic in Level 4

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Copyright © 2008 by Richard Preston

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Published in the United States by Random House, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

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Portions of this book appeared in different form in The New Yorker.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to Jean-François Ruppol, M.D., for permission to reprint an excerpt from his unpublished narrative “Ebola 2,” translated into English from French by Richard Preston and William T. Close. Used by permission of Jean-François Ruppol, M.D.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Preston, Richard

Panic in level 4/Richard Preston.

p. cm.

“Portions of this book appeared in different form in The New Yorker.”

eISBN: 978-1-58836-728-0

1. Medicine, Popular. 2. Science. 3. Science writers. I. Title.

RC81.P856 2008 616.02'4—dc22 2007041770

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