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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1. There are a number of characters in this book‚ choose one and tell us why you would want to be that person. Throughout this book we are introduced to many interesting and riveting characters but in my opinion one of the best characters in this book would have to be Major Nancy Jaax. She was a veterinarian in the Army‚ and her work at Fort Detrick in Maryland often took her away from her children. Consequently‚ she often made up batches of meals in advance so they could easily be thawed and reheated
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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 medulla of the adrenal gland‚ especially in times of stress or injury. Chapter 1: Something In The Forest 1. Who is Charles Monet? 2. What happens to Monet? 3. (pages 4-6) The author uses a sensory image of hot and cold in describing the case. Why? 4. The author makes a distinction between lethal and nonlethal contagion. What is the difference? 5. Why were workers burning the fields? What impact does this have on the
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Part 1‚ Chapter 1 Something in the Forest Summary Chapter one introduces the reader to Charles Monet. He is a French expatriate working on a sugar plantation in western Kenya. The story begins on New Year’s Day‚ 1980‚ when Charles and a woman take an overnight trip to Mount Elgon‚ a formerly active volcano. During their trip‚ they visit Kitum Cave. After returning to his quiet life‚ Monet becomes ill. The reader knows that he is experiencing a catastrophic illness‚ but Charles and those who
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Time Zones Christopher D. Smith GLG/150 July 21‚ 2010 The Greenwich Meridian is a north-south line representing a zero degree-reference line in longitude. The line passes through the United Kingdom and it represents the world’s prime meridian. Longitude is used to measure the distance of areas on the world east‚ or west. Think of it like the equator‚ where the equator separates the southern and northern hemispheres. The Greenwich Meridian separates the east and west hemispheres. According
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The Blue Zones The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who’ve Lived the Longest by Dan Buettner talks about the author’s research in different places who have people who live into very long years of their life in a few areas of the world who claim to have the highest number of the oldest people. Blue Zone is a concept used to identify a demographic and/or geographic area of the world where people live measurably longer lives‚ as Dan Buettner describes in his book. The concept had
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The Intertidal Zone The intertidal zone is the area of the sea floor that is uncovered and recovered by the tides. At high tide‚ the intertidal zone is submerged beneath sea water and at low tide it is exposed to air. There are two main types of intertidal zones that experience this daily change‚ the sandy shore and the rocky shore. Each has different characteristics and special organisms that survive there. These different species tend to inhabit different zones in which they can handle but there
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Crumple Zone I choose to look at the crumple zone in cars for my technological device and briefly touch upon seat belts in cars and air bags. The crumple zone in my own words is a zone built in an automobile to compress when an accident occurs. This was built to absorb “deformation” energy from the impact. The other reason it was built‚ which is more common is to reduce the deaths in car accidents. Crumple zones are mostly located in the front of a car and this will absorb the energy from “head
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The Twilight Zone This applicant shows that her interest in public interest law flows naturally from her volunteer activities and life experiences. When you finish this essay‚ do you have a sense of unity and completion? She tied her conclusion both to the highlights of the body and her lead. The last thing I remember is falling asleep during a late night rerun of the Twilight Zone. So when it happened‚ it was especially eerie‚ like I had stepped into a lost episode‚ but Rod Serling was nowhere
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