That night these two monkeys died. Bill Volt the decided to open them up to try to figure out what had happened. Upon doing so he discovered that the monkeys had enlarged spleens, which puzzled him. So he called Dalgard again to have him come back. Immediately Dalgard did, to him it appeared that the monkeys had come down with simian hemorrhagic fever (SFH).
After a lot of the monkeys in this room die very quickly the manager named Bill Volt calls Dan Dalgard a consultant doctor that would help examine the monkeys. They then call the Army when the situation gets worse. The army calls in Nancy and Jerry Jaxx and the use them alone with Gene Johnson a civilian who has studied the Marburg and Ebola virus, Frederick A. Murphy a virologist who was one of the co-founders of the Ebola virus and the first to photograph it. After Nancy collects some of the dead monkeys for testing they’re sent to the lab so they can find out what kind of Ebola or Marburg it is. They are shocked when it turns out to be most closely related to Ebola Zaire which is bad news because they are 15 miles from Washington D.C. After many more monkeys die and the virus seems to be traveling through the air Dan Dalgard hands over the entire facility to the Army.
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.
Maxim Lazarev Ms. Shipp English 12, B5 13 January 2015 Logical Appeals Overpower the Feels Richard Preston used his work, Hot Zone, as a medium to appeal to an audience by using logic and reason through the facts and information he presents in the novel. Logos is what was primarily used in this nonfiction piece of literature. In the first part of the novel Preston talks about how deadly Ebola really is. He gives many anecdotes from people who have studied the virus and its effects. One of them was Gene Johnson, who was mentioned in this quote: “All of Gene Johnson’s infected monkeys died no matter what drugs they were given.
The newspapers were lettering about deaths by parrots when it really was pneumonia. There had been no autopsy done on the bodies to determine if parrot fever was the culprit. The media blew the situation up and got America in this horrific panic. Then the newspapers make a mockery out of this plague. In January of 1930, the “Times” ran a story about Americans suffering from “mass suggestion” (698).
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.
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
He placed a drumming toy into the cage to see how the monkeys would react when they were frightened. He found that all the monkeys ran to the cloth monkey even the ones that had been fed by the wire monkey. He also noticed that when they were put into the cage after being frightened they were delinquent and showed signs of anti social behaviour. They were also unable to form normal relationships. Therefore he concluded that the monkeys in the cage suffered emotionally and so resulted in delinquency, but also the monkeys had an innate need for comfort.
What Comes of Handling Snake-skin (pg 52) Jim told Huck that touching snake skin causes bad luck and Huck decides to trick Jim with a dead rattlesnake but ends up causing Jim a snake bite that takes “four days and nights” to heal. As the story goes on, Jim has repeatedly proved himself to be correct in Huck’s eyes, even thought Huck refuses to acknowledge it. XI. They’re After Us! (pg 52) Huck disguises himself as a girl to “slip over the river and find out what was going on” and he went to a lady who immediately found out that Huck was a boy
Occasionally, these species reside in cooler climates, monkeys found in China and Japan, are prime examples but not common. Explain how two features of the animal help it survive in the environment it lives in? The highly developed brains of monkeys allows them to make mental maps of food locations such as fruit trees and knowing when the fruits will be ripe and therefore ready for food. They also are able to grip food with their hands like humans. Some monkeys also have special tails that serve as a fifth limb when gripping food.