The Hot Zone
According to the text, what are bricks and why are they dangerous?
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Bricks are crystals. They hold the virus and release it into the bloodstream.
These crystals are broods of virus getting ready to hatch from the cell. They are known as bricks. The bricks, or crystals, first appear near the center of the cell and then migrate toward the surface. As a crystal reaches a cell wall, it disintegrates into hundreds of individual virus particles, and the broodlings push through the cell wall like hair and float away in the bloodstream of the host.Source(s)
Preston, Richard. The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (p. 106). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
