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Thomas Clontz1st Period1/14/14The Hot Zone SummaryI accredit this is the final copy of my own original work and all(prenominal) resources consume been cited appropriately.The novel, The Hot Zone, by Richard Preston, is an uncanny tale about a virus called the Ebola virus. The author interviews a number of different people that all had encounters with the virus and records their stories. He is very enkindle by what they tell him and throughout the novel he is always seeking to find more reading about it. There were many different encounters in this book yet in my summary I am going to explain the ones that interested me the most. The story begins with a man by the name of Charles Monet. He is in Kenya working on a sugar plantation. One of his friends and him decide to accede a trip to Mount Elgon and visit the Kitum undermine. A couple of years after he returns from his trip he becomes very ill. He experiences headaches and backaches for several(prenominal) days before spiki ng a fever and violently vomiting for a long time. His eyes change to a bloodshot red chroma and he loses all expressions from his face. His personality also dramatically changed. Doctors try to plough him but with no success so he was put on a plane to go to the Nairobi Hospital. During the flight he gets so sick that he throws up huge amounts of red puke with fateful specks in it. He begins to bleed from his nose and eventually from almost both opening in his body. By the time he reaches the hospital he crashes and falls to the floor in a pool of his virus give blood. Another aspect of the story is associated with Major Nancy Jaax. She is a member of USAMRIID or United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases. USAMRIID does look for on different w... ...animal was sedated before it could hurt her. On Friday, December 7, the closing curtain monkey was finally put down. After this the decon team arrives. They seal strike the building and heat these spec ial crystals that kill everything that is living. Also, the team learns that Milton Frantig, the employee who had fallen ill, had aged from what seemed to be the flu. Ending this story the author, Richard Preston travels to Africa on his own to see the Kitum Cave and other sites that were mentioned throughout the novel. Finally, the author visits the monkey house in Reston which is outright abandoned.This novel was an incredible journey of a virus from its origin and to what it became as it was passed from host to host. I learned how a virus can set and form different strands which can cause it to become more deadly. This was an extraordinary story and incredibly informative.