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The Hot Zone - Online Term Paper

The Hot Zone

In October of l989, 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 harmless to
humans. Dr. Dalgard decided to enlist the aid of the United States
Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) to
help diagnose the case. On November 28th, Dr. Peter Jahlring of the
Institute was ...

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That means there are no vaccines and there
are no cures for these killers.
In 1976 Ebola climbed out of its primordial hiding place in
the jungles of Africa, and in two outbreaks in Zaire and Sudan wiped
out six hundred people. But the virus had never been seen outside of
Africa and the consequences of having the virus in a busy suburb of
Washington DC is too terrifying to contemplate. Theoretically, an
airborne strain of Ebola could emerge and circle the world in about
six weeks. Ebola virus victims usually "crash and bleed," a military
term which literally means the virus attacks every organ of the body
and transforms every part of the body into a digested slime of virus
particles. A big point that Preston wanted to get across was the fact
that the public thinks that the HIV virus is quite possibly the most
horrible virus on Earth, when no one takes into mind the effects and
death of the victims of Ebola. Preston shows how Ebola ...

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Added: 9/7/2005 10:22:42 PM
Category: English
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 665
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