On New Year's Day 1980 a man named Charles Monet went on a trip with a girl friend of his up to Mount Elgon in West Kenya. They spent the night there and went to a large cave there called Kitcum cave. After his trip to Kitcum cave he went home and three days later had a huge headache that wouldn't go away. That is the first symptom of this deadly disease. A few days later he went to the doctors and they told him he should go to a bigger hospital in Nairobi. Charles caught a flight to Nairobi on the ninth day after his visit to Kitcum cave. All through the flight to Nairobi he was throwing up blood mixed with a black liquid. When he got to the hospital he sat down and waited to be served. Then his spine went limp and nerveless and he lost all sense of balance. He started going into shock. He then started throwing up an incredible amount of blood from his stomach and spilt it on to the floor. The people who were there said the only sound was the choking in his throat from his constant vomiting while he is unconscious. Then came the sound of bed sheets being torn in half, which is the sound of his bowels opening up and venting blood from the anus. The blood is mixed with intestinal lining. His gut is sloughed. The linings of his intestines come off and were being expelled from his body along with huge 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 Marburg was called Ebola Sudan for were it was found. Later in Zaire there was an out post of missionaries who would give vaccine shots and penicillin to local tribes.
The Hot Zone & Outbreak "The kill rate in humans infected with Ebola Zaire is 9 out of 10. ... In Richard Preston's The Hot Zone, this type of characterization is displayed. ... Characterization such as this is why The Hot Zone was a best seller. ... Sensory imaging is what makes The Hot Zone a book worthy of recognition. ... Outbreak has much less scientific information than The Hot Zone. ...
These are the words describing a number one New York Times Bestseller, The Hot Zone. ... The Hot Zone tells this dramatic story, giving a hair-raising account of the appearance of rare and lethal viruses and their "crashes" into the human race. Shocking, frightening, and impossible to ignore, The Hot Zone proves that truly really is scarier than fiction." In his high- suspense, terrifying non- fiction novel, The Hot Zone, Richard Preston delivers quite a thriller. ... Of course, for those of you who get scared easily, The Hot Zone is definitely not for you. ...
The Hot Zone Just like a Hollywood movie, Richard Preston's book The Hot Zone tells a story of an almost viral outbreak in suburban Washington, D.C.. Unfortunately, unlike a movie made for entertainment, The Hot Zone recalls the events that led to Americas encounter with the Ebola virus. ... The Hot Zone takes you into the laboratories to give you some insight on how scientist deal with these deadly viruses on a daily basis in hopes of finding cures. ... The Hot Zone especially today will make you sit back and think about how quickly life as we know it can turn to shambles. ...
The area around the subsiding plate is the subduction zone. The subduction zone is the seismically and volcanically active area nearby a tectonic plate that is submerging below another tectonic plate. The subduction zone supports the theory of plate tectonics by showing wherever two plates collide and one subsides, volcanoes are present. Also, the sedimentary rock found on the top and bottoms of plates is also present in the magma that is released in subduction zones in the Pacific Ocean. ... Wilson was the first to speculate about the hot spots, or thermal plums. ...
First, I must state that this may not be what you are looking for in any way. I might also add that my selection of literature is neither artistic nor philosophical. It did, however, move me. I read The Hot Zone by Michael Crichton in 1995, and throughout my post-Hot Zone series of reads, it stil...
During this time they are in their homes with the heater on sipping on a cup of hot cocoa. ... Unfortunately, when you enter the "family zone", California being at the top of your list of places to live is just unrealistic. ... Even though the cost of living in California is very expensive, presently I have not entered into the "family zone" of the corporate world. ...
A hot spot is an abnormal hot rising area of the mantle that supplies the lava for volcanoes. If at the same time a hot spot is directly below a thinned crust then the magma in the hot spot may hold too much pressure to be held by the thinner weakened crust. ... Therefore the frequency of earthquakes caused in ocean basins by hot spots is very low. ... These forces result in the triggering of the earthquakes within the subduction zones. The frequency of earthquakes in Subduction zones is about the same as that in the mid-ocean ridges. ...
These convection zones cause the mantle to circulate and apply tensional forces to plates. ... As well as earthquakes happening at ridges, they can happen at hot spots. ... If by chance a hot spot occurs under this weak part of the crust then the magma might provide the extra needed pressure to force the magma to the surface. ... At this zone of plate activity earthquakes can once again happen are varying depths. ... In this type of boundary, the focus can occur anywhere in this zone and so the earthquakes can be shallow, intermediate or deep. ...
