Preston describes and reviews the discovery of the Reston virus

In the second section of his book, Preston describes and reviews the discovery of the Reston virus at the Reston facility in Virginia. In addition, he describes the emergency response to the situation by the American government through the army and CDC (Preston, 1994). In the third section of the book, the author has used scientific evidence to show the similarities between the Reston virus and the hemorrhagic viruses isolated from Monet, other Ebola patients and monkeys in Africa. Preston provides molecular evidence from the viral RNAs and their cDNA after intensive studies in Kenya, the US and Germany. He notes that the viruses have similar molecular characteristics with the Reston virus previously studied in Virginia. In fact, he notes that the same contamination channels are involved in the two types of viruses. Clinical conditions are also similar, but the viruses are different in that Reston cannot infect humans due to lack of a single protein that attaches to human cells on its surface (Preston, 1994).