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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 Hot Zone by Richard Preston is a non-fiction novel about the origin of Ebola and its effects on people and the outbreak of Ebola in a monkey house. Preston also goes into details about the symptoms of Ebola and the different strains of Ebola,which are Ebola Zaire, Ebola Reston, and Ebola Sudan. Preston really informs about the dangers of Ebola and what it can do to the human body and what must be done to prevent the virus from spreading around the world and causing an…

Americans whom were not aware of the virus. Written and published as the time when Ebola became popularly known in first world countries, "Stalking a Killer", by David Quammen throws light upon reservoir hosts of the virus, specifically, bats. Published years before, The Hot Zone by Richard Preston, a nonfiction novel about the origins of the Ebola virus, explores Marburg and the many different strains of Ebola. When studying Ebola, scientists pay special attention to asymptomatic hosts, much…

Ebola is an infectious and generally fatal disease that has been infecting thousands of people in the West Africa for years and recently America. Ebola was discovered in 1976 near the Ebola River in the Democratic Republic of Congo and southern Sudan. Researchers believe the disease is animal borne and that bats are mostly the original reservoir. There are 5 different types of Ebola; Ebola virus, Sudan virus, Tai forest virus, bundibugyo virus, and Reston virus. The Reston virus is the only…

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Mellisa Sherman Professor Morgan History 1302 May 1, 2016 Podcast 14 #1 Terry Gross, host of NPR, talks with James Reston Jr. who was recruited to help Journalist David Frost prepare for the series of interviews that David Frost would have with Former President Richard Nixon over a 24-hour time frame. Terry Gross explains that these interviews were broken down into four, 90-minute television programs, where for the first time 45 million Americans would hear Nixon discuss the events that brought…

Richard Preston’s The Hot Zone is about the Reston virus, one of the five strands of Ebola, and its outbreak in Virginia in 1989, which startled the eastern United States. The story begins with a hot zone of the Ebola virus, Kitum Cave, in order to provide background information towards the virus and its hunger to take hold of a host. Over the course of the story Preston depicts the viral effects, emphasizes the passion of the scientist, and conveys the bravery in an almost disastrous situation.…

makes some of the victims drink drain cleaner or dissect their body. She removes body parts like the appendix, tongue, and spleen. Then, she sends the body parts to a close person of the victim such as family or a friend. Paul Reston is the After School Strangler. Each one of the After School Strangler victim 's neck has the same horizontal mark. The mark is always low on the neck, insinuating the use of a ligature. This ligature is a belt. This is the signature of the After School…

The fame that accompanies “The Hot Zone,” into it’s 23rd anniversary is not unjustified. Preston presents an eloquent history of the Ebola virus in a manner that is easy to follow and keeps the reader interested. Preston takes it upon himself, through thoughtful descriptions, to thrust the reader into the setting of his characters. From the silvery gray-green olive trees in the forests of Mount Elgon to the insufferable heat and stench of monkeys at the Reston monkey house, the reader has to…

Dr. Carson of lying about his past. Although many believe he is a decent candidate, some journalists, specifically Scott Glover and Maeve Reston of CNN, and Kyle Cheney of POLITICO, are creating unfair and clouded journalism. The liberal news media is not effectively covering Dr. Ben Carson because the media excessively…