Preston, Richard

Preston, Richard, The Cobra Event, New York Random House (1998). 

Preston, Richard. Annals of Biowarfare The Bioweaponeers. New Yorker (9 March 1998), 52-65. 

Bruce A. Napier Carl J. Paperiello Ronald C. Petersen R. Julian Preston Jerome S. Puskin Marvin Rosenstein Lawrence N. Rothenberg Henry D. Royal Michael T. Ryan Jonathan M. Samet Stephen M. Seltzer Roy E. Shore Edward A. Sickles David H. Sliney Paul Slovic Daniel J. Strom Louise C. Strong Thomas S. Tenforde Lawrence W. Townsend Lois B. Travis Robert L. Ullrich Richard J. Vetter Daniel Wartenberg David A Weber F. Ward Whicker Chris G. Whipple J. Frank Wilson Susan D. Wiltshire Marco Zaider Pasquale Zanzonico Marvin C. Ziskin... 

President William J. Clinton, Interview of the President by the New York Times, Washington DC White House Office of the Press Secretary (23 January 1999) Richard Preston, The Cobra Event, Random House (1998). 

Modern man has lost sight of this evolutionary struggle. There is obvious hysteria associated with what appears to be a losing war against these horrible diseases. Richard Preston in his book, The Hot Zone, crystallizes the primal nature of this human-viral war, as well as the intrusion of mankind into the balanced ecology of the earth, when he writes concerning the fatal viruses emerging from the tropical rain forests ... 

There are, moreover, other unsuspected scourges on the horizon. Thus, there are emerging viruses from the destmction of the tropical rain forests or from other sources. This subject has been explored, for instance, by Richard Preston in the October 26, 1992, issue of the New Yorker, and also by John Langone in the December 1990 issue of Discover. The findings are that some of these vimses are lethal, as the human immune system does not respond to them. The subject is covered in Emerging Viruses, the title of a monograph contributed to by a number of specialists and edited by Stephen S. Morse of Rockefeller University, and published in 1993 by the Oxford University Press. Moreover, there is talk that the Gulf War, that is. Operation Desert Storm, may have unleashed its own brands of lethal viruses from the sands of the desert. 

More on anthrax, the Ebola virus, and especially the smallpox virus, are presented in firsthand accounts in Richard Preston s The Demon in the Freezer A True Story, published in 2002. Following the format of his previous book The Hot Zone A Terrifying True Story, Preston interviewed many of the principals involved in the CDC and, in particular, in the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Dedrick, Maryland. He gives particulars about the highly successful program to eradicate smallpox, and about still-remaining sources of the stored virus. Included is the fact that genetic modification has produced a new strain that is not affected by conventional vaccinations. 

Pi is not the solution to any equation built from a less than infinite series of whole numbers. If equations are trains threading the landscape of numbers, then no train stops at pi. — Richard Preston, 1992... 

The work of the authors as reported in this chapter was supported by the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. We are indebted to Mr. Richard Preston for much help in the preparation of this manuscript. 

Richard Preston, The Bioweaponeers, The New Yorker (March 9,1998) p. 60. Concerned at the time that the test was still classified. Bill Patrick was not willing to share with the author of the article exactly what agent was being used. However, he indicated that it was treatable with antibiotics, therefore it was likely a bacteria or rickettsial agent, probably the former. 

Ken Alibek, interview, November 6,1998. The Soviet defector,Vladimir Pasechnik, was the first to tell the West that the Soviets had developed plague bacteria resistant to antibiotics. See Richard Preston, The Bioweaponeers, The NewYorker (March 9,1998) p. 58. 

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