Preston explains the discovery of a new type of Ebola virus at this place that kills the Monkeys imported from the Philippines. The reader is taken through the journey of a medical research institute and their quest to decontaminate the red alert monkey house. The final major part of the book takes us back to Kenya, in Kitum cave, trying to identify the first source of the virus. The book is unique because it is proof that even nonfiction books can evoke emotions among readers, even to an extent more than horror fiction novels. From works of extensive research and conducted interviews, Preston came up with a well arranged, dramatized representation of the findings.
Throughout the book, the spread of this thread virus (another name for filovirus) is traced back to the exploration by a French expatriate named “Charles Monet”. Preston reflects on Monet’s exposure to Ebola back to the Kitum Cave in Kenya which ultimately spreads globally through a not heavily regulated monkey trading ring to its appearance in Reston, Virginia, where it became a worldwide epidemic . Ebola enters the body through an exchange of bodily fluids similar to AIDs but the aftermath is nothing in comparison. Preston identifies four filoviruses strains—Marburg, Ebolua Sudan, Ebola Zaire and Ebola Reston—all of which have different mortality rates but the same effects on the body . Marburg is the least fatal with a fatality rate of twenty-five percent, Ebola Zaire is the most fatal with a ninety-percent kill rate.
The virus was first introduced to the Motaba community when one of the natives, patient zero, went to build a road into Kinshasa. When he returned to the village he was already sick and drank from the community well. This caused the entire village to become infected as the virus was being spread through salivary exchange. At that time the host species was not known but we later found out it was a monkey that lived in the forest near the village. This monkey was brought to America some years later, and then spat water on Jimbo who was trying to sell it to a pet storeowner, Rudy.
Later Pasteur developed his work by finding out ways humans could be prevented from getting diseases. But Pasteur always lacked detailed medical knowledge. Therefore he introduced to doctors, Emile Roux and Charles Chamberland. Pasteur and his team researched the next disease, rabies. Most human victims of rabies died a painful death.
I Am Legend is a psychological thriller/horror movie worth watching, earning a distinct rating of four stars. Will Smith’s portrayal in this movie is unique in that the audience can watch as the solitude induced insanity slowly creeps over him (I Am Legend, 2007). Dr. Robert Neville was a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army during the time of the outbreak and was determined to stay in the New York area, ground zero, in an effort of curing the population and mitigating further infection. From the 600 million that survived 12 million had a natural immunity to the virus and the rest were turned into dark seekers who are essentially violent aggressive degenerative zombies of the human form (Media Case Study, 2007). Therefore, 9% percent of the human population has become dark seekers, which feed on the flesh of the non-infected.
The Stickiness Factor 3. The Power of Context According to Gladwell, M. (2000), The Tipping Point is the moment when everything changes because a threshold has been crossed. It’s the time when the ideas or trends change all of a sudden with no real explanation. These mysterious changes that mark everyday life should be thought of as epidemics and the three themes listed above offer a way of making sense of epidemics. Epidemics often ignite and spread very quickly and just as fast as they came, they are gone.
In the book it says,“Most parasites live in more than one kind of animal, but they’re all trying to reach their final host, the ultimate vector”(60). Parasites can kill their host but once their host is dead they die along with it in Peeps it says,“One thing about parasites—they’re great at living inside other organisms, but once they hit the outside world, they’re not so tough.”(109) In some ways the parasite situation form the book could be true only some aspects could. The unusual strength, night vision, heightened senses, and an affinity with rats cannot be a realistic benefit form a sexual transmitted parasite. Parasites
Paul Edgecomb a Louisiana death row guard wonders why John Coffey is accused of such a crime. Yet Paul is surprised how a man that big can cry and be afraid of the dark. According to IMDb, green mile won four Oscars for Best Action/adventure/thriller film, best supporting actor (Michael Clarke Duncan), Best supporting Actress (Patrica Clackrson), Best screenplay, picture, and actor(Tom Hanks). Just naming a few still awards doesn’t cut it, this movie deserves more for its outstanding acting and its amazing moral it has behind it. Green mile was about a 8-foot giant, John Coffey, who cries, is scared of the dark and has god given powers.
The scientists then decided to place the monkey into the Zika forest so that the monkey could contract a fever. Once the monkey contracted many samples of the virus, the scientists removed those serum samples separated it
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