The Hot Zone By Richard Preston

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The Hot Zone By Richard Preston

Part One: The Shadow of Mt. Elgon

Mount Elgon Kenya-Uganda Border Ancient inactive volcano--huge caldera

Kitum Cave

Elephants and Bats

Elephant Scrapings

Insects And Rock Hyrax

USAMRIID United States Army Medical Research Institute on Infectious Disease

Chemturion Suit Racal Suit

Marburg Filovirus Related to Ebola Originated in Africa 1st Outbreak in Germany Level 4 biocontainment Causes headache, muscle ache, fever, vomiting, hemorrhaging, death

UPCOMING GRAPHIC PICTURES Ebola Filovirus 5 Types Ebola Zaire Ebola Sudan Ebola Reston Ebola Tai Forest 5. Ebola Bundibugyo WARNING: UPCOMING GRAPHIC PICTURES

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Treatments Working on vaccine Supportive Care Fluids, electrolytes Oxygen Treat other infections Prevention is key Proper hygiene (wash hands!) Avoid contact with bats and primate meat/fluids Avoid travel to infected areas Do not handle Ebola patient’s items

Ebola Zaire Most deadly form of Ebola 90% fatality rate There have been more outbreaks of Ebola-Zaire than any other type of Ebola 1st outbreak was in 1976 in Yambuku, Zaire Index Case—Mabelo Lokela

Ebola Sudan Index case—Mr. Yu. G.

Ebola Reston You will learn more about this outbreak in the next section

Ebola Tai Forest Formally Ebola Ivory Coast 1st outbreak in 1994 (after The Hot Zone was written) Autopsy on a wild chimpanzee Not much is known

Ebola Bundibugyo Outbreak occurred in December 2007-January 2008 37 dead, 149 infected in an outbreak in the Bundibugyo district in Western Uganda

March 2014 Outbreak The largest outbreak ever in recorded history started in 2014. There were 28,639 cases and 11,316 people died Effected multiple countries including Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia most heavily As of 3.2.16, no cases in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone Related to Ebola Zaire, type ??

Survivors After the 2014 Ebola outbreak there are more Ebola survivors than ever before. Persistent medical conditions--joint pain, eye problems, headaches, and other chronic health issues Ebola virus can stay in certain body fluids

Part Two: The Monkey House

Reston, Virginia

Reston, Virginia

Reston Primate Quarantine Unit Quarantine monkeys for 1 month Sent monkeys all over the U.S. for laboratory research Crab Eating Monkeys—Long Tailed Macaques Island of Mindanao  Manila  Amsterdam  New York  Reston, Virginia

Nancy Jaax (USAMRIID)

Jerry Jaax (USAMRIID)

CJ Peters (USAMRIID)

Tom Geisbert (USAMRIID)

Peter Jahrling (USAMRIID)

Joe McCormick (CDC)

Fred Murphy (CDC)

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