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Ebola Zaire Ebola Sudan
1,020 wordsWe dont really know what Ebola has done in the past, and we dont know what it might do in the future. (p. 49) According to Eugene Johnson, a civilian virus hunter, specializing in Ebola, the essence of the virus itself is one whose existence is still unintelligible to humans. The knowledge of the nature of this virus, as well as Marburg the gentle sister of the three filo virus sisters (Ebola Zaire, Ebola Sudan, and Marburg), remains questionable today. In his book, The Hot Zone, Richard Preston...
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President Bill Clinton Hot Zone
1,084 words... and orphanages Richard Preston Where he was born and what some of his life was like. Preston was born in Cambridge, MA he got his Interest in reading when he was in the forth grade and shortly he became addicted to books and just like my grandpa be came a paper addict, where any paper with readable writing the person picks up and reads and if its take able the person then takes and keeps and cant put in the trash / recycle for fear it might die like shooting a animal. He also would get into ...
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Ebola Zaire Hot Zone
677 wordsBook Report: The Hot Zone by Richard Preston In October of l 989, Macaque monkeys, housed at the Reston Primate Quarantine Unit in Reston, Virginia, began dying from a mysterious disease at an alarming rate. The monkeys, imported from the Philippines, were to be sold as laboratory animals. Twenty-nine of a shipment of one hundred died within a month. Dan Dalgard, the veterinarian who cared for the monkeys, feared they were dying from Simian Hemorrhagic Fever, a disease lethal to monkeys but harm...
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Ebola Zaire Internal Organs
1,618 wordsImagine Hot Zone Hot Zone Imagine walking into a tiny village in Africa, suffering and dying from some unknown virus. As you approach the huts you hear the wails of pure agony from the afflicted tribe members. Coming closer, you smell the stench of vomit mixed with the bitter smell of warm blood. People inside lay dying in pools of their own vital fluids, coughing and vomiting up their own liquefied internal organs; their faces emotionless masks loosely hanging from their skulls, the connective ...
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Ebola Viruses Hot Zone
342 wordsNature s Wrath Nature is our host and we are the parasite. In the book, The Hot Zone, Mr. Preston has explained one of the most feared things known to mankind, the virus. Even though as small as a needle head, it can kill humans faster than any weapon ever made. The actual virus itself, the host, and the organizations that spent years trying to figure out a cure are all examples shown in both The Hot Zone and the film, Outbreak. The actual virus itself went through multiple changes in the book, ...
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Hot Zone 1 St
875 wordsStyle Critique on The Hot Zone Lassa is a Level 4 virus from West Africa, and it was one of Peter Jahrlings favorite life forms-he thought it was fascinating and beautiful, in certain ways. He had held in his gloved hands virtually every hot agent known, except for Ebola and Marburg. When people asked him why he didnt work with them, he replied, I dont particularly feel like dying. Richard Preston traces the known paths of Ebola and Marburg in The Hot Zone. He tells of their discovery, effects, ...
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