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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powerful and dangerous‚ so dangerous that it can sometimes cause irreplaceable damage‚ but can also do good things. The Hot Zone shows that Ebola can spread worldwide and have devastating effects. Preston states that if Ebola manages to spread beyond central Africa‚ then it will be all over the world‚ from New York to Paris‚ but “we never knew it.”(99) If Ebola spreads worldwide‚ there would be a global epidemic. However‚ it did not‚ and very few people knew its dangers. Also‚ the World Health Organization
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could be. Many people could be affected in New York alone Ebola could have a global impact. The plane becomes a host it is carrying the virus in a sense. Example two: Both species‚ the human and the monkey‚ were in the presence of another life form‚ which was older and more powerful the either of them‚ and was a dweller in blood. (Pg 57) Richard Preston is use of the word older makes creates uncertainty. No one knows how long the Ebola virus has been. The "life form" (viruses are neither dead or
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This is an Essay on the book The Hot Zone by Richard Preston. Ebola is a hot virus‚ meaning it is very dangerous‚ and lethally hot. It gets into your body in numerous different ways‚ therefore making it extremely hard to fight against. The diseased virus gets into your body and immediately starts eating all of your tissue. This results in body functions ceasing to work. Your liver shuts down completely‚ leaving toxic wastes floating around in your blood stream. Your blood starts losing
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Nancy Jaax had been promoted to the Level 4* Biosafety containment area at USAMRIID.* She is assigned to research Ebola virus*. When she was cooking at home‚ she cut her right hand. Later‚ at work‚ she didn’t check her suit close enough. She was dissecting an EBOV-infected monkey‚ and one of the gloves on the hand with the open wound rips‚ and she is almost exposed to contaminated Ebola blood. The readers later find that Nancy was not infected. Peter Cardinal‚ a ten-year-old‚ visits Kitum Cave.
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Ebola By: Fahd Seddiki and Conrad Womelsdorf Discovery of Ebola The discovery of Ebola was made after an epidemic of this virus was spread throughout Sub-Sahara Africa. The actual discovery was made by a native by the name of DR. Ngoy Mushola. He discovered it in 1976 after the epidemic hit his country. The first case of Ebola was called Ebola Zaire. It was discovered in Zaire hence the name. The second discovery of Ebola was called Ebola Sudan; also it was discovered in Sudan. Although
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Ebola the Virus Picture‚ for one moment‚ numerous bloody bodies lying scattered and moaning in agony in blood-soaked beds as the life is slowly and painfully drawn from them as if they were soldiers that had just returned from one of the deadliest wars in history‚ bruised‚ battered and broken by their enemy. But they had fought no war‚ and had never laid eyes on their enemy‚ for the very thing that was destroying them was living and replicating at an enormous rate‚ right inside their own bodies
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Exercise 1: Human Behavior and The 1995 Ebola Outbreak In Zaire 1. In different cultures‚ people have different traditions. Most of which seem pretty harmless‚ unless a virus is introduced amongst the population. In the film‚ the Ebola virus was spread unintentional in 3 main ways: handshaking‚ burial rituals‚ and selling and eating infected animal meat. When people greet each other in Zaire‚ a handshake is usually the method that is used. However with the Ebola outbreak‚ handshaking spread the virus
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status of Ebola and Leishmaniasis are deadly diseases according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Ebola is comprised of five distinct species: Zaïre‚ Sudan‚ Côte d’Ivoire‚ Bundibugyo and Reston‚ which causes 25-90% deaths found in African clinics. Leishmaniasis is caused by parasites which transmit this disease by the bite of a tiny female phlebotomine sand fly. This deadly disease is estimated to infect 1-2 million new cases every year. The two diseases that are similar to Ebola and Leishmaniasis
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Control Ebola Ebola is now talked about across the globe. The fever and severe internal bleeding that are due to the disease are not only fatal‚ but there is also no complete or known cure at this time. Also‚ the disease is highly contagious as Ebola has not become contained‚ so this continues to alarm people around the world. Yet at a more personal level‚ the urgency of learning what to do about the control of Ebola and how to not become infected are all key to staying safe. Ebola is a rare
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