The Hot Zone tells a dramatic, chilling and realistic story of an Ebola virus outbreak! It occurs in a monkey storage warehouse in a suburban Washington D. C. laboratory in 1989. Monkeys were being used in scientific experiments because they were most similar to humans and the virus couldn’t tell the difference. This then, allows the lab to become a ‘hot zone’. He becomes very interested in how the viruses work and their symptoms that appear in human beings.
As mentioned in the book that when a human get infected or catches this virus they would eventually be labeled as “No Longer Human”. As we know that a medical team has been selected to to find a cure to this virus. These brave doctors including Dr. Blum search for a cure to stop humans from being infected so they run tests, applying some forensic techniques and other ideas on the zombies that were captured. The main character of this book is Dr. Blum, who visits a remote island with other scientists to explore and get further details on a theory that could potentially help to uncover and find a cure to this epidemic. The island is infected with the virus ANSD so these scientists have to carefully unfold this mystery.
2. When the infected mosquitoes bite people, they can pass the virus onto humans. The virus is spread throughout majority of the globe putting all at risk of acquiring the disease. You may be wondering what the symptoms are and what the virus can do once it gets inside your
Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information Outbreak What is the name of the deadly virus? 'Outbreak' For Diehards, Part 1 Motaba. The virus was named after the Motaba River in Zaire, Africa. It was first discovered in 1967, and later resurfaced in 1997. The people in Africa who became infected were infected by the Colobus monkeys in the area.
Richard Preston wrote a true story about a chilling story of an Ebola virus outbreak that occurs in a suburban Washington, D.C. laboratory in 1989. In this laboratory, monkeys being used in experiments quickly become ill and die due to a filovirus. From his introduction, Richard Preston tells about an explosive chain of lethal transmissions, which begins far from Washington, D.C. laboratory and allows the laboratory to become a "Hot Zone" (get it?). The area contains infectious, lethal organisms. In vivid detail, Richard presents a meltdown of a man's body, known in the story as Charles Monet, which is invaded by a filovirus in a part of the African rain forests that also presents the world with HIV virus through the Kinshasa Highway.
In the book it never said that the disease started from a monkey like it did in the movie. It just said that it came from Kitum Cave. In the book they talk about wearing orange jumpsuits that they found in the cave. But in the movie they put on blue suits in the testing lab and when they go out in public to help the people they wear yellow suits. In the book Nancy cuts her hand on a knife and blood from a monkey got on her glove and she got scared.
Noah Taylor Jason Stanwood Gifted and Talented Science 7B March 1, 2012 Mad Cow Disease Makes You Not Want To Eat Meat In 1986, Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), commonly known as Mad Cow Disease, was first diagnosed in Britain. Epidemiologists conducted studies that suggested that the source of BSE was contaminated cattle feed. Several cows became sick. Some suspect that they were fed sheep that were infected with Scrapie, a fatal disease that affects the nervous system. It took several years for the government to admit that humans could die from the infected cows.
171 affected cases, 1 dead were reported in Mexico. It was inevitable with this instance that Cholera would spread beyond the Caribbean. It is been said that 715,000 people were sickened of Cholera including peacekeeping troops sent from Nepal by the UN due to poor sanitary facilities in Haiti and Dominican Republic. 9000 people were reported dead. Mexico is not considering the WHO approved vaccine for Cholera outbreak.
There are many contagious diseases that people can contract and it can instansly become a epanedmic. There are many contagious diseases worldwide according to the Center for Diseases Control, many of them being in the United States. I personally think that the worst one is polio. Polio is a very contagious diseaese. Polio is a crippling and potentially deadly infectious disease caused by a virus that spreads from person to person invading the brain and spinal cord and causing paralysis.
Most deaths occur among children living in Africa where a child dies every 45 seconds of malaria and the disease accounts for approximately 20% of all childhood deaths (WHO 2010). Malaria is a major cause of illness and death in Ghana, particularly among children and pregnant women in Ghana. In 2006, malaria accounted for 38.6% of all outpatient illnesses and 36.9% of all admissions (MOH, 2009). Malaria prevalence per thousand populations was 171 and 2,835 malaria-attributable deaths (all ages) representing 19% of all deaths were recorded. Infection rates are high in children peaking at more than 80% in those aged 5 – 9 years and falling to low levels in adults (MOH, 2009).