The Hot Zone part 1 is about the Ebola Virus, a deadly virus that is highly contagious and kills 90% of people that contract it. There is no cure, and no vaccine for this deadly infectious virus. The only known source of the virus is Kitum Cave, on Mount Elgon in Africa, deep in the tall rain forest. The first known case is of Charles Monnet, a researcher living in Africa, he spreads it by getting on a plane and going to a hospital. There he infects a doctor named Dr. Musoke, who then gets a surgery and it fails to treat the deadly disease. 10 days later he miraculously recovers. Later on, a group of researchers go to Mount Elgon, to search Kitum Cave for any sign of the virus, but strangely none of the test animals had any trace of the virus.
One difference I found about the recent outbreaks and the outbreaks in the 70’s was that the contamination rate. In the 70’s the virus had a relatively infected a well amount of people but in 2014, the World Health Organization reported what they called a “rapidly evolving outbreak” of Ebola in West Africa, where 49 …show more content…
Three years after the outbreak in Reston, Richard Preston, the author of this book, travels to Kitum Cave to inspect it for himself. He does not break out with Ebola, nor does he find anything that would transfer Ebola. It leaves us with the question of whether Kitum Cave is dormant, and if one day, Ebola will revive, and a massive outbreak previously unknown will occur.
I believe that C.J. Peters should win the Nobel Prize, not just because of his work with Ebola, but his work with other diseases as well. He has made a great contribution to science with his detailed field studies of various deadly viruses. He has gotten little or no recognition for his efforts to prevent deadly pandemics from sweeping through the human race. He has put his life on the line many times to preserve the quality of life we enjoy, and should be shown our appreciation with the presentation of the Nobel
One difference I found about the recent outbreaks and the outbreaks in the 70’s was that the contamination rate. In the 70’s the virus had a relatively infected a well amount of people but in 2014, the World Health Organization reported what they called a “rapidly evolving outbreak” of Ebola in West Africa, where 49 …show more content…
Three years after the outbreak in Reston, Richard Preston, the author of this book, travels to Kitum Cave to inspect it for himself. He does not break out with Ebola, nor does he find anything that would transfer Ebola. It leaves us with the question of whether Kitum Cave is dormant, and if one day, Ebola will revive, and a massive outbreak previously unknown will occur.
I believe that C.J. Peters should win the Nobel Prize, not just because of his work with Ebola, but his work with other diseases as well. He has made a great contribution to science with his detailed field studies of various deadly viruses. He has gotten little or no recognition for his efforts to prevent deadly pandemics from sweeping through the human race. He has put his life on the line many times to preserve the quality of life we enjoy, and should be shown our appreciation with the presentation of the Nobel