The Hot Zone Sparknotes

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The Hot Zone: A Terrifying New Story (1995) written by Richard Preston describes the history and terrifying outbreak of several strains of level 4 biosafety hot agents specifically including, Ebola. Preston strategically divides his novel into four parts; “The Shadow of Mount Elgon”, “The Monkey House”, “Smashdown” and “Kitum Cave”, starting with some of the first known cases, moving through the progression of the disease then finishing with his own trip to the suspected home of the virus.
He starts off following Charles Monet, a sugar factory water care man living in Western Kenya. After a weekend trip to Kitum Cave on Mount Elgon, he suddenly fell ill, experiencing severe headaches, nausea and internal blood clots, displaying starlike red …show more content…

He is a long time ebola hunter and selects Nancy Jaax to be his researcher and investigator on deceased ebola-infected monkeys. While at home one night preparing dinner, she slices the palm of her right hand. Later on, she works on one of the deccessed infected monkeys and nearly gets herself contaminated when 2 out of 3 layers on her right glove covered in the monkey's blood, tears. It is also mentioned that some of the blood samples Johnson received were from a young boy, Peter Cardinal, who died from the marburg virus after visiting Kitum Cave with his …show more content…

In a state of panic, they immediately sought isolation and immediate euthanization of all the monkeys at the quarantine. The mass euthanization was not as simple as possible. With many major groups involved, there was much controversy over who should be the group to perform the euthanizations and how that group should carry it out. Once decided, there were a few close calls of contamination, including when an unconscious monkey woke up in the process of being euthanized and immediately attempted to bite a worker, tearing part of his space suit. Now that the monkeys were taken care of, the team took to “decontaminating the building, killing every life form inside of

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