Part One:In the shadow of Mount Elgon
In part one “In the shadow of Mount Elgon” we are first introduced to Mr. Charles Monet. Charles is fifty six years old and takes care of a sugar factory’s water pumping machinery. Monet lives at the base of Mount Elgon in western Kenya. Monet decided to go on a camping trip for his winter holiday. The place where he wanted to camp was at a national park on Mount Elgon. On day two of Monet’s trip he decided to visit Kitum Cave. Kitum cave was a popular tourist attraction where people could go and see a petrified rainforest other things such as crystal formations. Inside of this cave there were many bats on the roof of the cave, and guano covered the floor and walls.
Days after the trip Charles developed …show more content…
This was called the monkey house. The house got a 100 monkey shipment and two of the monkeys were dead on arrival. The rest of the monkeys were put in holding rooms around the building. Less than a month later they notice that a lot of the monkeys were starting to die in large amounts. A large amount of deaths were happening in holding room F.
A veterinarian was called to look at the monkeys and he noticed that there were two monkeys with droopy eyelids. Those monkeys died that night. The monkeys were dissected and it was noted that the monkeys spleens were enlarged. There was also blood in the monkeys intestines. The vet suspected that the monkeys died from a simian hemorrhagic fever. Samples of the dead monkey tissues were sent USAMRIID (Where Nancy Jaax works).
An intern named Tom Geisbert examines the samples of the Virginian monkeys and finds something peculiar. When tom examines the tissue samples he finds what he initially thinks is Marburg virus. Tom takes Pictures of the virus to his superior Peter.Peter and tom look at textbooks and realize that they are dealing with a very dangerous virus.A meeting is set up with the USAMRIID and Peter. Peter confirms that they have found the monkeys and found Ebola zaire. It is decided that they will euthanize the monkeys and take the samples of the ebola virus back to the USAMRIID
In part one “In the shadow of Mount Elgon” we are first introduced to Mr. Charles Monet. Charles is fifty six years old and takes care of a sugar factory’s water pumping machinery. Monet lives at the base of Mount Elgon in western Kenya. Monet decided to go on a camping trip for his winter holiday. The place where he wanted to camp was at a national park on Mount Elgon. On day two of Monet’s trip he decided to visit Kitum Cave. Kitum cave was a popular tourist attraction where people could go and see a petrified rainforest other things such as crystal formations. Inside of this cave there were many bats on the roof of the cave, and guano covered the floor and walls.
Days after the trip Charles developed …show more content…
This was called the monkey house. The house got a 100 monkey shipment and two of the monkeys were dead on arrival. The rest of the monkeys were put in holding rooms around the building. Less than a month later they notice that a lot of the monkeys were starting to die in large amounts. A large amount of deaths were happening in holding room F.
A veterinarian was called to look at the monkeys and he noticed that there were two monkeys with droopy eyelids. Those monkeys died that night. The monkeys were dissected and it was noted that the monkeys spleens were enlarged. There was also blood in the monkeys intestines. The vet suspected that the monkeys died from a simian hemorrhagic fever. Samples of the dead monkey tissues were sent USAMRIID (Where Nancy Jaax works).
An intern named Tom Geisbert examines the samples of the Virginian monkeys and finds something peculiar. When tom examines the tissue samples he finds what he initially thinks is Marburg virus. Tom takes Pictures of the virus to his superior Peter.Peter and tom look at textbooks and realize that they are dealing with a very dangerous virus.A meeting is set up with the USAMRIID and Peter. Peter confirms that they have found the monkeys and found Ebola zaire. It is decided that they will euthanize the monkeys and take the samples of the ebola virus back to the USAMRIID