The Hot Zone is a nonfiction story written about the lethal filovirus, Ebola. Charles Monet was working in the Nzoia Sugar Factory. During a trip to Mount Elgon, Charles visited Kitum Cave. After his trip, he started having headaches. During his visit to the doctor, he fell down and bled out. During Charles' examination, he threw up in Dr. Musoke's eyes. After nine days, Dr. Musoke had a backache, which was not normal for him and his eyes turned red. When he could not diagnose himself, he called in another doctor. After getting his blood tested, the results showed positive for Ebola. Over a few years, many signs of Ebola and Marburg, a closely related virus to Ebola, had shown up in Africa. One of these cases was a little boy named Peter Cardinal, who also caught Marburg from Kitum …show more content…
Cave. Because many people, who visited Kitum Cave, caught the Ebola virus, Gene Johnson, who worked with the army, joined a few others and explored the cave. Even though they found no signs of Ebola or Marburg, they still believe that Kitum Cave carries the virus somehow. In Reston, Virginia, Hazleton Research Products was using a building as a monkey house.
When a shipment of Crab-Eating Monkeys came in, two monkeys were already dead. This was not unusual because some monkeys die during shipments. But, as more and more monkeys died over a few weeks, Bill Volt, the manager of the monkey house, became concerned. He would watch the monkeys, and if the monkeys had red eyes, they would die over the next few days. He called in Dan Dalgard, a doctor, to find out what was happening. Dan kept a journal as more and more monkeys died. After cutting one open, he thought the monkeys may have had Simian Hemorrhagic Fever, or SHF. After sending in a sample, Tom Geisbert, an Intern at USAMRIID, thought it looked like Marburg. After telling his boss, Peter Jahrling, of his findings, together they conducted a few more tests. After finding out that it was Ebola or something closely related, C.J. Peters gathered a team of experts to explore further. After shutting down the factory and killing the monkeys, they examined the corpse. They concluded that this was a new type of Ebola. They named it Ebola Reston. Ebola Reston traveled through air and only infected
monkeys. There are three types of Ebola: Ebola Zaire, Ebola Sudan, and Ebola Reston. There is also a virus closely related to Ebola called Marburg. Ebola Zaire was the most lethal to humans, killing nine out of ten of cases. Marburg was the mildest, and Ebola Sudan was the least lethal. Even though Ebola Zaire was the worst, all Ebola and Ebola-like viruses are deadly.
Baseball is Michael’s only way to a better future. Michael, the main character in the book “Heat” by Mike Lupica, is a 12 year old boy who moved to New York from Cuba. Michael is gifted. He has an arm that throws baseballs super fast. But with his dad gone Michael can’t prove his age to the baseball team and the team needs his pitching skills. In the book Heat the symbol is Yankee Stadium. This symbol represents the main characters future. But the theme of the book is “family can come from the most unexpected places.”
HEAT is about a very good baseball player, Michael Arroyo, living his dream playing baseball. Michael is only 12 years old and he plays pitcher. He can throw up to 85 mph! That is really and i mean really fast for a 12 year old. This led to coaches from the other team not believing he was only 12, they and the league officials wanted to see a birth certificate to prove he was 12, that was problem. The problem was that michael was born in cuba, and that’s where his birth certificate was. Michael’s parents died while he was in cuba, so he moved to America. He lives with his brother Carlos who is only 17, you must be 18 to live with someone that is underaged to live on their own. So Carlos and Michael have to be very careful about that also, while somehow someway getting the birth certificate from Cuba.
One Fat Summer by Robert Lipsyte, is a very good book for teenagers that feel insecure about themselves and have low self-esteem. In the book they will read about a young boy name, Bobby who overcomes his fears of being fat and being bullied by Willie, one that is much stronger then him physically, but not emotionally. The basic theme of this story is to stand up for yourself no matter the situation.
The novel, “The Hot Zone”, by Richard Preston, is an extraordinary tale about a virus called the Ebola virus. The author interviews a number of different people that all had encounters with the virus and records their stories. He is very interested by what they tell him and throughout the novel he is always seeking to find more information about it. There were many different encounters in this book but in my summary I am going to explain the ones that interested me the most.
In the article “Counterpoint: Cooling Off” by Dr. Amy Witherbee, a Professor at University of Arkansas, she shares the concerning statistic “Carbon dioxide has increased 30%, methane has increased more than 100%, and nitrous oxide has increased about 15%” (Witherbee). This is concerning because these dangerous gases called greenhouse gases cause many problems and are a hazard to our planet. One of the biggest issues facing the world today is climate change; to address this issue, we must lower greenhouse gas levels and use cleaner energy sources.
Charles Monet: He was the first host to the deadly ebola virus breakout in Africa. He was 56 years old and was kind of a loner according to the authors interviews with people. 2. Dr. Mosoke: He was Charles Monets doctor when Charles crashed and bled out which means when the host suddenly starts bleeding infectious blood out of every orifice in the body.
A year later, in Reston Virginia, a monkey house used to quarantine imported monkeys before they can be shipped out to parts of the United States, was losing monkeys to an unknown virus. All the characters of "The Hot Zone" are called together to discover and contain the unknown killer. The research team discovers this is a new strain of Ebola. This one definitely is airborne. They call it Ebola Reston. Unlike it's sister viruses, it doesn't seem to jump species. It is traced to Manila, Philippines where the monkeys originated, which is a mystery since Ebola is an African disease. The monkey house is decontaminated. Its contents, including the dead monkeys are incinerated. After another year, the monkey house is back in use. Ironically, monkeys shipped there from Manila begin dying from the Ebola virus again.
The medical field is a vast land of beauty, but with great beauty comes immense horror. There are many deadly viruses and diseases found in the medical field. In the novel, The Hot Zone by Richard Preston, the author discusses the many deadly viruses found in the field. The viruses are widespread due to the errors that occur when the viruses are in the presence of human beings. The effects of the errors performed by the human race include a decrease in population and wildlife.
Dan Dalgard, the veterinarian who cared for the monkeys, feared they were dying. from Simian Hemorrhagic Fever, a disease lethal to monkeys but harmless to human. The sexy of the human. Dr. Dalgard decided to enlist the aid of the United States Army Medical. Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) to help diagnose the case.
The story of Summer, by David Updike, is set during that idyllic time in life when responsibility is the last word on anyone's mind. And yet, as with all human affairs, responsibility is an ever-present and ever-necessary aspect to life. What happens when the protagonist, Homer, loses his awareness of a certain personal responsibility to maintain self-control? Homer's actions increasingly make him act foolishly, internally and externally. Also, how does Homer return to a sense of sanity and responsibility? To a degree, I would say that he does.
The movie Warm Bodies is undoubtedly a movie that has its own interesting take. It is ideally a zombie - romantic movie whose script is based on a novel of the same title authored by Isaac Marion (2010). The main character leads are R; played by Nicholas Hoult, Julie; played by Teresa Palmer, Nora; played by Analeigh Tipton, and M; played by Rob Corddry. Warm Bodies is not particularly a comic movie, but is instead a carefully woven film that brings into perspective what a kind heart can achieve, and generally, the power of human beings over that which is thought of as evil.
He is a long time ebola hunter and selects Nancy Jaax to be his researcher and investigator on deceased ebola-infected monkeys. While at home one night preparing dinner, she slices the palm of her right hand. Later on, she works on one of the deccessed infected monkeys and nearly gets herself contaminated when 2 out of 3 layers on her right glove covered in the monkey's blood, tears. It is also mentioned that some of the blood samples Johnson received were from a young boy, Peter Cardinal, who died from the marburg virus after visiting Kitum Cave with his
In 1976 the first two Ebola outbreaks were recorded. In Zaire and western Sudan five hundred and fifty people reported the horrible disease. Of the five hundred and fifty reported three hundred and forty innocent people died. Again in 1995 Ebola reportedly broke out in Zaire, this time infecting over two hundred and killing one hundred and sixty. (Bib4, Musilam, 1)
Marburg virus belongs to the genus Marburgvirus in the family Filoviridae, and causes a grave hemorrhagic fever, known as Marburg hemorrhagic fever (MHF), in twain humans and nonhuman primates. Basic Safety measures for medical personnel and others who are taking care of presumed individuals who may be contaminated with Marburg disease. Marburg Virus, Akin to the more widely known Ebola hemorrhagic fever, MHF is portrayed by systemic viral replication, lowering the body’s normal immune response to invasion by foreign substances and abnormal inflammatory responses. Ebola and Marburg Virus are very similar in many ways Marburg virus was introduced first in the 1960’s. These pathological features of the disease subsidize to a numerous of systemic dysfunctions including
In “Contagion and in “The Hot Zone” when confronted with an outbreak in the United States, technology both helped spread the virus and aid in its containment by connecting the world. Some brief ways it helped spread was the ease of going anywhere in the world by airplane within twenty four hours. A way that it helped contain the outbreak was the high level technology that we have and how we can stop the spread of a virus and make a vaccine against it.