The Ebola Virus In The Hot Zone By Richard Preston

The Hot Zone, written by Richard Preston, is an intriguing, and true, novel about the origins of the Ebola virus. It is a dramatic horror story about a deadly virus, first only found in the dense rain forest of Africa that somehow traveled thousands of miles to Washington, D.C. In only a few days, the virus spread and killed more than 90 percent of its victims. This book keeps you on the edge of your seat, in fear that yet another person will suffer from this terrible, contagious disease. The book as if it’s a nightmare, as if it were a zombie apocalypse. The human population is terrified of this happening in the 21st century, and the world could quite possibly come to an end if we have another Ebola scare like the one in The Hot Zone. I think

Silverstein tells the narrator about the Monet and doctor cases. Silverstein has the largest private medical practice in East Africa. He is also the personal physician of the president of Kenya. David gets a call about the doctor’s blood, which is positive for Marburg virus. The virus erupted in 1967 in Marburg, Germany, in a factory called the Behring Works, which produced vaccines using kidney cells from African green monkeys. The first man known to be infected with the virus worked at the factory; he fed the monkeys and cleaned their cages. He died two weeks later. This man showed the same symptoms as Monet and the doctor. Marburg kills a quarter of the patients who are infected with it. Marburg is one of a family of viruses known as the filoviruses, or “thread viruses.” After Monet died, the family of filoviruses was established as Ebola, with nine out of 10 as the kill rate in humans infected. The boss of the factory sent shipments of boxes of sick monkeys infected with Ebola out to a small island in Lake Victoria, where they were being released. The doctor who had contracted this deadly virus survived the encounter. He started to get better, and his personality returned, however he had no memory of what had happened. Samples of the doctor’s blood were sent around the

Their immune systems had either failed or gone haywire. Nancy found the two monkeys that had gone down overnight. They had bloody noses, their eyes were bloodshot, and they showed no facial expressions; not even pain or agony. Handling an unconscious monkey in Level 4 is dangerous, because they can all of a sudden wake up and bite the worker, which is almost certainly fatal. Nancy, with the help from a lieutenant, carefully started to dissect one of the monkeys. She suddenly realized that her hand felt clammy and wet, and hoped that there was no Ebola blood near the cut on her hand. But she eventually found out that there were no leaks in her inner glove, and she only had a near-Ebola