The Hot Zone essay
The Hot Zone
In the book the Hot Zone, by Richard Preston, the first few pages are introducing the reader into the world of contagious hot agents by going through the biosaftey procedures to access level 4. In part one, Charles Monet a fifty-six year old Frenchman living in western Kenya on the lands of the Nzoia Sugar Factory is introduced, but as his story continues he finds himself greatly ill by some unknown virus. It began shortly after a visit with a friend to Kitum Cave. Of course there’s no telling where exactly Monet really got the agent from, but where he got it probable wasn’t on his mind as it got worse. His symptoms begin with a headache, as they normally do on the seventh day after an exposure to the agent. Monet’s condition later worsens, he starts having severe backache and his eyeballs and temples also begin to ache. Soon after, his eyes become bright red and the skin of his face turns yellowish with red speckles. He was given antibiotics, but they had little to no effect on him. All the doctors then agree he must go to Nairobi Hospital, the best private hospital in East Africa. On the flight there Monet begins puking a slippery red liquid mixed with black specks. His eyes red as rubies and a face with the color of black-and-blue. His connective tissue in his face is dissolving causing his face to droop in a way that looks as if the face is detaching itself from the skull. The vomiting of the red and black liquid does not seem to cease. The substance is known as the black vomit, a liquid composed of two colors, black and red, that compose of tarry granules mixed with red arterial blood. In other words, a hemorrhage. The vomit is loaded with the virus. His blood is clotting up everywhere in his body. He is experiencing a stroke throughout his body. The clots begin accumulating in his intestinal muscles, cutting off the blood supply to his intestines. The blood clots in Monet’s brain are cutting off blood
In the book the Hot Zone, by Richard Preston, the first few pages are introducing the reader into the world of contagious hot agents by going through the biosaftey procedures to access level 4. In part one, Charles Monet a fifty-six year old Frenchman living in western Kenya on the lands of the Nzoia Sugar Factory is introduced, but as his story continues he finds himself greatly ill by some unknown virus. It began shortly after a visit with a friend to Kitum Cave. Of course there’s no telling where exactly Monet really got the agent from, but where he got it probable wasn’t on his mind as it got worse. His symptoms begin with a headache, as they normally do on the seventh day after an exposure to the agent. Monet’s condition later worsens, he starts having severe backache and his eyeballs and temples also begin to ache. Soon after, his eyes become bright red and the skin of his face turns yellowish with red speckles. He was given antibiotics, but they had little to no effect on him. All the doctors then agree he must go to Nairobi Hospital, the best private hospital in East Africa. On the flight there Monet begins puking a slippery red liquid mixed with black specks. His eyes red as rubies and a face with the color of black-and-blue. His connective tissue in his face is dissolving causing his face to droop in a way that looks as if the face is detaching itself from the skull. The vomiting of the red and black liquid does not seem to cease. The substance is known as the black vomit, a liquid composed of two colors, black and red, that compose of tarry granules mixed with red arterial blood. In other words, a hemorrhage. The vomit is loaded with the virus. His blood is clotting up everywhere in his body. He is experiencing a stroke throughout his body. The clots begin accumulating in his intestinal muscles, cutting off the blood supply to his intestines. The blood clots in Monet’s brain are cutting off blood