The book begins with a French Man‚ nicknamed Charles Monet‚ visiting the Kitum Cave*. A few days after‚ he begins to suffer from symptoms such as vomiting‚ red eye‚ and back pain. He is later taken to the Nairobi Hospital*. There‚ he goes into a coma and dies. Shem Musoke was infected by exposure to Charles’ blood and vomit. Musoke developed symptoms from the filovirus* and survived. This particular filovirus was found to be the Marburg virus*. Dr. Nancy Jaax had been promoted to the Level 4* Biosafety
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The Hot Zone The Hot Zone is a best-selling 1994 non-fiction bio-thriller by Richard Preston about the origins and incidents involving viral hemorrhagic fevers‚ particularly Ebola viruses and Marburg viruses. This book is based upon an outbreak of the Ebola virus in a monkey house located in the Washington‚ D.C. suburb of Reston‚ Virginia. The author weaves together the tales of several previous outbreaks in Africa to describe clearly the potential damage such an outbreak could cause. The first
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distance from the disk increases. If the compound is effective against bacteria at a certain concentration‚ no colonies will grow wherever the concentration in the agar is greater than or equal to that effective concentration. This region is called the "zone of inhibition." Materials and Equipment: • Samples of: Scalp‚ Ear‚ Feet‚ Nose‚ Arm‚ Underarm and
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Reducing Environmental Stressors to Improve Dairy Cow Comfort A pressing‚ and often-overlooked challenge on dairy farms is maintaining or improving cow comfort. There are a wide variety of environmental stressors that have a direct impact on the production level of dairy cows. Some of these stressors include; heat stress‚ poor ventilation‚ improper stall/feed-bunk design‚ and not having access to water. Conditions such as these are not only stressful to the cows‚ but also greatly affect their
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Climate Zones according to their locations Have you ever wondered why Alaska and Mexico differ in climates? The average temperature in each zone or region determines the climate and their respective classification. There are three climate zones: the tropical‚ temperate‚ and polar zones. The changes in climate differ because the earth revolves and rotates around the sun in a counter- clockwise direction. These zones are important for the earth because they characterize how the climate in each
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The Blue Zones Analysis How we live‚ affects how long we live. In recent studies‚ lifestyle affects 75% of our longevity. This means that our genes and diseases only affect 25% of how long we will live. The Blue Zones takes author Dan Buettner to longevity hot spots around the globe where a disproportionate number of people live a very long time. These hot spots are called blue zones. The term‚ “blue zone”‚ sounded a bit intimidating at first. I was expecting a scientific lesson on genes and aging
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Summary Richard Preston’s Hot Zone is a horrific narration of the origin of filoviruses and their encounter with humans. These viruses include Marburg virus (MARV)‚ Ebola virus (EBOV) and Sudan virus (SUDV). They are also known as Biosafety Level 4 agents because they are extremely dangerous to humans and have no treatments or cure. Section 1: The Shadow of Mount Elgon This section details Charles Monet’s visit to Kitum cave‚ which is located in Mount Elgon‚ Kenya. During this trip‚ Monet
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10. Standards/Physiology: Organisms have a variety of mechanisms to combat disease. As a basis for under-standing the human immune response: d. Students know there are important differences between bacteria and viruses with respect to their requirements for growth and replication‚ the body’s primary defenses against bacterial and viral infections‚ and effective treatments of these infections. 1. Vaccines- used against viruses before they enter the body. 2. Antibiotics-
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Thermal comfort indices The calculations of the PMV (predicted mean vote) and PPD (predicted percent of dissatisfied people) were done by using the CBE Thermal Comfort Tool of the University of California Berkeley that has been proposed based on ASHRAE Standard 55-2013 (Tyler‚ et al.‚ 2017). The result obtained after calculating PMV index for (H1) is varies between 1.63 to 2.1with the mean value of 1.99‚ and the 80% satisfaction falls within the range of [-1.99< PMV< +1.99]. By equating to ASHRAE
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The Hot Zone by Richard Preston was published in New York in 1994‚ consisting of 422 pages. I would rate this book a six because of its sporadic storyline. It provided some scenes that glued my eyes to the pages and made my stomach turn inside out‚ but overall it was not the type of book preference I would recommend for readers like me who enjoy a book that can keep you on edge and has lots of twist and turns to it. In the late 1900s there were these unknown diseases that were making people die
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