Mount Elgon Diffusion

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1) Mount Elgon was created from a leftover shield volcano.

2) Mount Elgon is located on the border between Uganda and Kenya. It’s in an island of rain forest in the center of Africa and it is the widest mountain in Africa.

3) Because the author wanted to show Monet’s relationship with the environment around him.

4) Not very far, because once the hot virus is on the plane, it can infect everyone on the plane, and go anywhere else to infect those places. I think this is important, because that means viruses can spread very easily and can also cause a lot of trouble.

5) Diffusion is the spreading of something more widely, which relates to geography because of how geographic features spread overtime.

6) Most diseases are named from when they are discovered.

7) The spread of Marburg is a example of
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9) The humans could have spread more viruses through the environment causing people encountering it spread it even further.

10) An airborne strain could circle the world in a couple of days.

11) Marburg has a 24% death rate, Ebola sudan has a 50% rate, and Ebola Zaire has a 90% death rate.

12) Because they probably couldn’t afford more.

13) The burial practices of central Africa contributed to the spread of Ebola viruses, because they did physical contact with the bodies.

14) Gene Johnson didn’t find anything. It was surprising, because the cave was where Monet got the disease after entering the same cave.

15) It means that the suburb was carefully planned from it’s inception.

16) They are both similar, because they both had a high amount of virus in the area.

17) Each year 16,000 monkeys are imported. They are sold, and are important, because they helped spread the disease.

18) The monkeys were caught at an army base. The people stopped to fuel up the vehicle and also check on the monkeys.

19) Upon entering the monkey house, he geared up to handle a hot

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