Ebola Virus In Richard Preston's The Hot Zone

Her doctor collected cancerous cells and healthy cells from her cervix and gave them to the cancer researcher, George Otto Gey, who was trying to keep cells alive for more than a couple days. Henrietta endured intense radium treatments, but she still died at the age of 31, leaving her husband and five children behind. An amazing discovery was made Henrietta’s cell were immortal. Racism is prevalent in this book through the limited availability of healthcare, unethical behaviors of the doctors, and how racism affected her family. During this time, there was an extensive lack of medical care for colored people.

The argument that all viruses are deadly is incorrect. In the Hot Zone, Preston explained how Ebola and Marburg caused an epidemic that killed over hundreds of people and animals. In the novel, Preston also mentions smallpox and malaria. Being diseases, there are cures for all of them which overtime will eventually prove to be not deadly. Although hundreds of lives were lost against the virus, there came a cure later on.

The UN peacekeepers had contracted the disease from an earlier mission in Nepal, and the epidemic was caused when a sanitation system at their base leaked contaminated fecal matter into a Haitian river. Due to the devastation of the earthquake, and Haiti’s poor plumbing facilities, the disease quickly spread, infecting more than half a million people. The epidemic caused reconstruction efforts in Haiti to halt and resulted in distrust toward the UN, who refused to compensate the victims.

In India, Paro and 36 monkeys were rescued by PETA and the CPCSEA(Committee for the Purpose of Control And Supervision of Experiments on Animals) from Pune’s National Institute of Virology. These animals lived in terrible household conditions. Some monkeys had broken fingers and teeth, while others had gone made from years of extreme torture. Millions of frogs from their habitats are hunted and captured to be sold for classroom dissection.

Atlee Carr Professor Penwell English 1101 14 April 2016 The Poisonwood Bible Evaluation Draft The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver is narrated by Orleanna Price and her four daughters. The Price family moves to the Belgian Congo in 1959 with hopes to spread their faith of Southern Baptism to the Congolese. While there, the Price family had to endure many struggles that the Congolese had to experience in their entire lives. In the middle of the story, the youngest daughter is killed by a green mamba snake that was placed by the local witch doctor.

Despite the Pure Food and Drug Act being formed, many the deaths and issues from drugs were still proceeding. After 107 people including a six year old, died from a poisonous ingredient in Elixir Sulfanilamide, a chemical relative of antifreeze, the distraught mother of the child wrote a letter to President Franklin Roosevelt about her grief and how something must be done. President Roosevelt responded by enacting The Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938. This act improved the past act by requiring manufacturers to submit an application to the FDA before marketing a drug, and by calling for adequate labeling for safe use of drugs. This act created requirements that certain drugs be labeled for sale by prescription only.

To begin with, in the beginning of the book Jamie gets asked by a classmate to help decorate posters for the school dance. Jamie was using her glitter powers to make amazing posters at home, but all of a sudden her dog Stinker gets ahold of the glitter. He eats all the glitter and gets sick, so Jamie and her best friend Isabella brought Stinker to the vet. That 's when both girls see Angelina (Jamie’s future cousin and school enimie) with her rescue dog Sticky Buns. To end off, the girls go home after Stinker was clarified by the vet in good condition.

THE EBOLA CONFLICT According to news media, Ebola was first reported in Guinea, West African in December 2013 and it started with a young child who was being nursed by her mother. It started like a minor cold, and then develops to strong fever; few days later, she died and her mother got sick, and was being cared for by other relatives as well. Few days later, she also died. The death of this woman drew concerns from health officials who suspected a disease was spreading in the family.

Where he invented project pigeon and the baby tender. During the year of 1936 he married Yvonne Blue and they had two daughters. In 1943 his wife convinced him to do an experiment with their baby’s crib. It was supposed to be safer than the bars that could hurt the baby. Rumors went on and Lauren Slater the author of Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychology Experiments of the Twentieth Century, said that because of Skinner’s baby crib his daughter Deborah killed herself.

For example, going to school, not being consider in the lower class. Malala was then transferred to a hospital in England, where she had to have surgery on her face. Malala did not stop being an activist after the Taliban shot her. She still gave courage to many people even when she was still in the hospital. After she was discharged from the hospital she started speaking out again.

He and Jahrling begin analyzing the sample of the monkeys’ blood serum which was wrongly diagnosed. During the procedure, there’s a part where the scientists decide to smell it without knowing it’s infected or not. If the virus was airborne, both of the scientists would have infected. Chapter 13 Thanksgiving: The Jaax Family visits their family over Thanksgiving.

She was then rushed to the nearest hospital in San Pedro Sula while she was still inside the coffin. Dr. Claudia Lopez who attended Perez told local reporters, “The whole family rushed in, almost breaking the door down, carrying the girl in her casket. Furthermore, Dr. Lopez tried everything she could to revive the teenager but she was dead. “They put her back in the coffin and took her away again, back to the cemetery,” she added.

Melba Pattillo Beals was born on the same day of the Pearl Harbor attack. When Melba was born, she was detected scalp infection in which cause multiple medical complications. Her life was at risk due to the fact that she was African American and was not given proper medical care by the doctors. The doctors and nurses did not do much to save newborn Melba. Melba’s mother, Lois, took it to herself to help her daughter survive.

Leland shoemake, six years old died of rare brain disease in Georgia. His heartbroken mother shared his last scribbled letter for his parents on a facebook account which she had activated to collect money to pay for leland’s medical charges. The six years old was diagnosed with meningitis last month. He was immediately transferred to hospital as his condition got truly critical.

On January 29, 1951, an African American woman named Henrietta Lacks was diagnosed with Stage 1, Epidermoid carcinoma of the cervix, after her visit to John Hopkins Hospital. Henrietta began radium treatments which was proven to kill cancer cells and a safer option than surgery, according to her physician Howard Jones. Jones increased Henrietta’s dose of radiation in hopes to decrease the size of the tumors however the treatments were proven ineffective and her skin was burned blacker while the pain grew unbearable until she passed away on October 4, 1951. She left behind her husband David “Day” and five children: Lawrence, Elsie, David Jr, Deborah, and Zakariyya (Joe). This paper will focus on how Henrietta Lack’s and her family’s experience