I learned that Marburg and ebola are similar viruses. I learned that viruses can amplify and jump through species. I also learned that viruses actually die when the host dies but comes alive again when it reaches contact with another live host.
2. Three biological facts I learned from reading The Hot Zone are: 1. A virus is a disease-causing agent smaller than a bacterium, consisting of a shell made of proteins and membranes and a core containing DNA or RNA. A virus depends on living cells in order to replicate. 2. AIDS, during its original outbreak in Africa, travelled through the Kinshasa Highway. Kinshasa Highway, the road that links Kinshasa and East Africa, was the main route by which HIV traveled during its breakout from the central African rain forest. 3. I also learned that viruses are very complicated and there are constantly new viruses emerging in the world. Some viruses, like the Ebola Zaire virus, are very lethal and contagious. Viruses amplify themselves in the body of the host and in some cases extreme amplification can occur. Extreme Amplification is the multiplication of a virus everywhere in a host, partly transforming the host into the virus.
1. You can catch a virus from breathing it through the air! (scary) 2. There are viruses worse than AIDS, such as Ebola. 3. Once the host is dead, the virus "tries" to find a new host to live in.
2. the 3 things 1. amplification is the mulitiplication of a virus through either the body of an individual host or a population of hosts. 2. HIV - is the virus that causes AIDS and that it originated from the rain forests of Africa. 3. Virus id a disease causing agent smaller than bacterium , consisting of a shell made of proteins and membranes and a core containing DNA or RNA .
From this book I had learned many biological facts such as- 1) There are certain virus, like the Ebola strain that are found only in monkeys, that can be transmitted by just breathing in the infected air. 2) I've learned that someone can be infected with a deadly virus and not even have the first symptom till the third or seventh day. 3) I've also learned that a simply change in the genetic make up a virus can change how it effects the host and or other organism. Such as the Ebola Zaire is very deadly to humans, but the strain that was found in the monkey house in Washington was just a little bit different, and so instead of truly harming humans it was a bigger threat to the monkeys.
Several facts I've learned from reading this book are...
1. A virus is a microscopic flu that can jump from one species to the next with the right mutations. The virus can not be prevented with a simple dust mask. And in level 4 working conditions they prevent major biological accidents by wearing space suits to separate themselves from the "hot" environment around them.
2. Many viruses like HIV and Ebola first started in the tropical forests in Africa. Also that these viruses are not only living in humans, but in insects and other mammals too. In the book we are given an example of the monkeys being shipped to Reston, where they are later discovered to be containing a new form of Ebola. The book also says that While in Kitum Cave Charles Monet and Peter Cardinal may have been infected with ebola through insect, or an open cut.
3. Once you are infected with a level 4 virus you are sent to a bio containment hospital called "The Slammer". The Slammer was created by The USAMRIID to manage exposures requiring containment. The Slammer is kept under negative pressure which prevents air from flowing out of the slammer.
1) A hemophiliac is a person who has a genetic disorder in which the body has an inability to control blood clotting. The clotting helps to stop bleeding when a blood vessel breaks. If a person has hemophilia, it means he or she has a genetic deficiency.
2) A virus is smaller than bacterium and can travel at super speed in seconds. It is considered a parasite because all living things carry viruses in their cells, including fungi and bacteria.
3) I’ve also learned that if a host of a virus is dead, the virus can adapt to a new population and new hosts quickly along with changing its character, and multiplies from there.
1. I learned that you do not want to catch Ebola Zaire. Ebola and Marburg are lethal hot agents making AIDS look silly.
2. I learned that viruses can never really die, and can only stop replicating itself if its host dies, and waits until it finds a new host to start the procedure again.
3. I learned that the spleen is responsible for filtering the blood. I learned this when the doctor Dalgard I think his name was, dissected the monkeys from room F. The monkeys' spleens were hard blood clots that grew in size.
1. Some virus's can be airborn. Which could then effect millions of people. 2. Marburg and Ebola are sister virus's, Marburg being the "gentle sister". 3. Virus's can take over one species as a host and then once that species dies it can jump to a whole differnt species.
1. A virus can enter its host without being detected and it can completely take over it. Once the host beings to feel weak, it is too late to fight it. 2. A lot of viruses, even if they originated from different parts of the world, always seem to be traced back to the rain forests of Africa. 3. It is not easy to know the exact symptoms of such a deadly virus because after a while that strand of the virus disappears and/or it mutates.
2. a) When a person has become infected wiht ebola, their cells have been taken over by crystalloids. Crystalliods are diease forming and will make the cells explode eventually. When the book would talk about a person "bleeding out" this is what was really going on inside them.
b) Another fact i learned from this book is that viruses never truely die. When the host they are in die they wait to find a new host to take over.
c) One last fact that i learned which made me a little scared. A viruses can in fact be obtained from breathing it in from the air.
1) there are 4 filoviruses called mariburg, ebola zaire, ebola reston, and ebola sudan. also these are all level 4 biohazard viruses.
2) a scary fact is that it just takes one infected particle of the virus to get into a humans bloodstream to possibly amplify and kill a human, that is how contagious it is.
3) I also learned that the virus, even after its host is dead, still is dangerous. Although the virus stops its replication it can still wait for a new host to infect and use to multiply more
1) I learned that some viruses are airborn and others are transmitted in different ways, like physically. The Marburg and Ebola viruses are deadly and scary because some strains are airborn and in that case it cannot be controlled and becomes more difficult to contain. In the book it was shown by the monkeys in one room getting sick, and then monkeys from a totally different room down the hall getting sick.
2) I learned that there is no way to truly fins out where viruses start and amplify. In the book, there were several leads back to Kitum Cave as the origin but there is so much bacteria and different possible hosts, like bats, that you can't possibly test everything in the cave to find out which species started the amplification and spreading.
3) The viruses in this book: Marburg, Ebola Zaire, Ebola Sudan and Ebola Reston are very hard to identify because the signs of the viruses mostly start off as just a bad headache. By the time the peopl that are contaminated try to get help it is usually too late and the virus has already spread to most parts of the body and start causing it to "bleed out", destroying all organs and the host.
I learned that Marburg and ebola are similar viruses.
ReplyDeleteI learned that viruses can amplify and jump through species.
I also learned that viruses actually die when the host dies but comes alive again when it reaches contact with another live host.
Hmmmm...can a living organism *die* and then come back to life?
ReplyDelete2. Three biological facts I learned from reading The Hot Zone are:
ReplyDelete1. A virus is a disease-causing agent smaller than a bacterium, consisting of a shell made of proteins and membranes and a core containing DNA or RNA. A virus depends on living cells in order to replicate.
2. AIDS, during its original outbreak in Africa, travelled through the Kinshasa Highway. Kinshasa Highway, the road that links Kinshasa and East Africa, was the main route by which HIV traveled during its breakout from the central African rain forest.
3. I also learned that viruses are very complicated and there are constantly new viruses emerging in the world. Some viruses, like the Ebola Zaire virus, are very lethal and contagious. Viruses amplify themselves in the body of the host and in some cases extreme amplification can occur. Extreme Amplification is the multiplication of a virus everywhere in a host, partly transforming the host into the virus.
1. You can catch a virus from breathing it through the air! (scary)
ReplyDelete2. There are viruses worse than AIDS, such as Ebola.
3. Once the host is dead, the virus "tries" to find a new host to live in.
2. the 3 things
ReplyDelete1. amplification is the mulitiplication of a virus through either the body of an individual host or a population of hosts.
2. HIV - is the virus that causes AIDS and that it originated from the rain forests of Africa.
3. Virus id a disease causing agent smaller than bacterium , consisting of a shell made of proteins and membranes and a core containing DNA or RNA .
From this book I had learned many biological facts such as-
ReplyDelete1) There are certain virus, like the Ebola strain that are found only in monkeys, that can be transmitted by just breathing in the infected air.
2) I've learned that someone can be infected with a deadly virus and not even have the first symptom till the third or seventh day.
3) I've also learned that a simply change in the genetic make up a virus can change how it effects the host and or other organism. Such as the Ebola Zaire is very deadly to humans, but the strain that was found in the monkey house in Washington was just a little bit different, and so instead of truly harming humans it was a bigger threat to the monkeys.
Several facts I've learned from reading this book are...
ReplyDelete1. A virus is a microscopic flu that can jump from one species to the next with the right mutations. The virus can not be prevented with a simple dust mask. And in level 4 working conditions they prevent major biological accidents by wearing space suits to separate themselves from the "hot" environment around them.
2. Many viruses like HIV and Ebola first started in the tropical forests in Africa. Also that these viruses are not only living in humans, but in insects and other mammals too. In the book we are given an example of the monkeys being shipped to Reston, where they are later discovered to be containing a new form of Ebola. The book also says that While in Kitum Cave Charles Monet and Peter Cardinal may have been infected with ebola through insect, or an open cut.
3. Once you are infected with a level 4 virus you are sent to a bio containment hospital called "The Slammer". The Slammer was created by The USAMRIID to manage exposures requiring containment. The Slammer is kept under negative pressure which prevents air from flowing out of the slammer.
1) A hemophiliac is a person who has a genetic disorder in which the body has an inability to control blood clotting. The clotting helps to stop bleeding when a blood vessel breaks. If a person has hemophilia, it means he or she has a genetic deficiency.
ReplyDelete2) A virus is smaller than bacterium and can travel at super speed in seconds. It is considered a parasite because all living things carry viruses in their cells, including fungi and bacteria.
3) I’ve also learned that if a host of a virus is dead, the virus can adapt to a new population and new hosts quickly along with changing its character, and multiplies from there.
1. I learned that you do not want to catch Ebola Zaire. Ebola and Marburg are lethal hot agents making AIDS look silly.
ReplyDelete2. I learned that viruses can never really die, and can only stop replicating itself if its host dies, and waits until it finds a new host to start the procedure again.
3. I learned that the spleen is responsible for filtering the blood. I learned this when the doctor Dalgard I think his name was, dissected the monkeys from room F. The monkeys' spleens were hard blood clots that grew in size.
1. Some virus's can be airborn. Which could then effect millions of people.
ReplyDelete2. Marburg and Ebola are sister virus's, Marburg being the "gentle sister".
3. Virus's can take over one species as a host and then once that species dies it can jump to a whole differnt species.
1. A virus can enter its host without being detected and it can completely take over it. Once the host beings to feel weak, it is too late to fight it.
ReplyDelete2. A lot of viruses, even if they originated from different parts of the world, always seem to be traced back to the rain forests of Africa.
3. It is not easy to know the exact symptoms of such a deadly virus because after a while that strand of the virus disappears and/or it mutates.
2.
ReplyDeletea) When a person has become infected wiht ebola, their cells have
been taken over by crystalloids. Crystalliods are diease forming and
will make the cells explode eventually. When the book would talk about a person "bleeding out" this is what was really going on inside them.
b) Another fact i learned from this book is that viruses never truely die. When the host they are in die they wait to find a new host to take over.
c) One last fact that i learned which made me a little scared. A viruses can in fact be obtained from breathing it in from the air.
A) I learned that hot agents like ebola and marburg are the most dangerous viruses that a person could evere come across.
ReplyDeleteB) I learned that viruses never die the only stop replication and await a new host.
C) I learned that viruses have the ability to adapt to survive in new environments(hosts)
1) there are 4 filoviruses called mariburg, ebola zaire, ebola reston, and ebola sudan. also these are all level 4 biohazard viruses.
ReplyDelete2) a scary fact is that it just takes one infected particle of the virus to get into a humans bloodstream to possibly amplify and kill a human, that is how contagious it is.
3) I also learned that the virus, even after its host is dead, still is dangerous. Although the virus stops its replication it can still wait for a new host to infect and use to multiply more
1) I learned that some viruses are airborn and others are transmitted in different ways, like physically. The Marburg and Ebola viruses are deadly and scary because some strains are airborn and in that case it cannot be controlled and becomes more difficult to contain. In the book it was shown by the monkeys in one room getting sick, and then monkeys from a totally different room down the hall getting sick.
ReplyDelete2) I learned that there is no way to truly fins out where viruses start and amplify. In the book, there were several leads back to Kitum Cave as the origin but there is so much bacteria and different possible hosts, like bats, that you can't possibly test everything in the cave to find out which species started the amplification and spreading.
3) The viruses in this book: Marburg, Ebola Zaire, Ebola Sudan and Ebola Reston are very hard to identify because the signs of the viruses mostly start off as just a bad headache. By the time the peopl that are contaminated try to get help it is usually too late and the virus has already spread to most parts of the body and start causing it to "bleed out", destroying all organs and the host.