Hot Zone Questions.. Kayla E.

1. I thought the book was really good. At first i was a little nervous that i wouldn't like it. As i started to read it got better and better. I think one of my favorite things baout this book was how detailed it was. It really showed you exactly what was going on. The details helped you paint a picture in your mind.

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.

3. The article on malaria relates to The Hot Zone because the two diseases were given to humans from monkeys. In the book the first cases of ebola were found in monkeys back in the late 1960's. The first man to come down with the marburg agent worked with monkeys as living. In the article, it talks about how malaria is caused from a parasite which is common on chimpanzee's.