Reaction To The Virus In The Hot Zone By Richard Preston

The Hot Zone by Richard Preston. Is a book that has many stories that are mainly about the filovirus which contain the two-main virus that the writer has written about it which they are Ebola and Marburg virus. The book also explains how did the virus have been discovered and how it really affected the community and what did the World Health Organization reacted on the virus effects on the world. The writer had written about how did the people react to the virus and how did the scientist struggle in discovering the virus and how did the Center of Disease Control started to do some action against the virus. In this paragraph, I will be discussing the people react to the virus and how about scientist struggle and discovering the cause of the virus. …show more content…
For instance, when Charles Monet was on the plane that was heading to Kenya for treatment in the Kenya Hospital. During the flight, Charles Monet was vomiting (black vomit), and he was having a severe hemorrhage none of the cabin crew neither the passengers paid attention to him. None of the passengers because they thought that it was none of their business. After discovering the virus and they knew that it could spread tremendously among the people. For instance, when Nancy Jaax become the part of the fourth level laboratory at USAMRIID. Many scientists feared to be part of the fourth level laboratory at USAMRIID. Before entering the lab, they had to wear a space suit so they don’t have any contact with an infected living organism or body fluid. So, Nancy Jaax had her suit on ready for entering the lab to dissect the infected monkey, she had a knife cut on the glove of the hand so she thought that she got infected by the virus because she thought she had a physical contact with the