Marburg

could happen at any time, leaving some readers on the edge of their seats. The novel informed the nation on what likely could be a reality, with some chapters focusing solely on the various symptoms one goes through when contracted with Ebola and Marburg. It also focuses on the origin of the virus and what treatment can be offered to those afflicted. The story shifts settings from Kenya to

1. Explain the importance of the reference to Monet’s “women friends”? Monet’s “women friends” are important because he could have contracted the virus from one of them through sexual contact. Not only that, but they could have contributed to the spread of the virus to many others. 4. Monet gets sick, as the disease strikes him, list the symptoms, feelings, and progression of the disease. As Monet became sick, he felt a headache, a throbbing behind his eyes. This happened on the seventh day after

amounts of blood. This dying process which happens to nine out of ten people who come in contact with the deadly disease is called crashing and bleeding. Samples of his blood were flown to all the major disease labs in the world. The disease was a Marburg Strain. In Sudan the same types of deaths were wiping out whole tribes. So Gene Johnson flew over there and worked with sick members of the tribes to try and find a cure. This strain of

Chapter 1: Something In The Forest Charles Monet’s daily life and path through how he might have initially contracted the virus is outlined. His personal and daily life are also mentioned-he’s a French man who ended up in Western Kenya and now works in a sugar factory, living in a bungalow with a housekeeper named Johnnie. His surroundings are thoroughly described by Preston; the sky, trees, animals, people, and general atmosphere are accounted for. Background information about the topography and

examines, in great detail, various other viral outbreaks, including Marburg. Preston begins by talking about a fifty-six year old Frenchman named Charles Monet who ends up breaking out with a treacherous disease called Marburg. This wasn’t known until his doctor, Dr. Shem Musoke, ended up testing positive for Marburg after Monet`s infected blood went all over Doctor Musoke as Monet was dying. Musoke survived his outbreak with Marburg. Another case Preston examined involved Nancy Jaax, a veterinarian

novel’s greatest faults and strengths lies not specifically in its content, but in how the content is laid out for the reader. He starts off the novel with what is likely his own imaginings of the details surrounding the death of Charles Monet, our Marburg patient zero. Given the circumstances of Monet’s death, there was no way that he could have given, in such great detail as Preston provides, a recounting of the events that took place in days prior to his arrival at Nairobi Hospital. With that obvious

1, Chapter 3 Diagnosis Summary Several years later, the author visits with Dr. David Silverstein, who has gained a huge reputation in Nairobi. Silverstein relates a 2 a.m. phone call that informed him that Dr. Musoke's blood tested positive for Marburg, a virus about which little is known. It was named after a town in Germany where, in 1967, citizens contracted the virus from monkeys transported from Uganda to a local laboratory. Many of the monkeys had been brought in by a trader who was more interested

"The Brothers Grimm were academics best known for publishing collections of folk tales and fairy tales, which became massively popular." (Zipes p. 7) "Born in Hanau, Germany, a year apart, with Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm born the oldest, on January 4, 1985, and Wilhelm Karl Grimm on February 24, 1786. Their family consisted of nine other siblings, six of which survived infancy, and their parents." (Zipes p. 9) Their early childhood was described as "idyllic" with them living in a beautiful countryside

As I read the assigned readings this week I wanted to understand Nancy Jaax before labeling her as a “heroic or irresponsible” figure. Her motivation and determination to be part of the Level 4 in order to help find a cure that would avert a tragedy to the human species seemed to be heroic but selfish. In my point of view, Jaax put herself before her husband, her children, and her own safety. The moment that she decided to join the research without taking into consideration her family and the danger

Ebola was first recognized in 1976 as the cause of outbreaks of disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (then known as Zaire) and in Sudan. About three hundred people in each of the two nations were infected with the virus, resulting in a mortality rate of 88% in Zaire, and 53% in Sudan (Bulletin of the WHO 1978). The disease as it was discovered spread through direct contact of unmans to humans, and then thought, from non-human primates to humans. The epidemic was a result of unsafe and