The Hot Zone (pg. 1 - 73)

Question 1

Where is the AIDS Highway

Answer 1

Africa, the Kinshasa Highway

Question 2

Why is the AIDS highway so important?

Answer 2

Prostitutes had aids and spread it by truckers

Question 3

Charles Monet

Answer 3

Took care of the sugar factory’s water pumping machinery and delivered the water to the sugar cane farms.

Question 4

HIV and AIDS is a what BIO safety level?

Answer 4

BIO Safety level 2

Question 5

AIDs got it’s name from

Answer 5

acquired immunodeficiency syndrome

Question 6

HIV got its name by

Answer 6

The monkey version SIV

Question 7

What’s the name of the cave?

Answer 7

Kitum Cave

Question 8

What happened at Kitum cave?

Answer 8

A kid went into the cave and died the next day (Monet did the same)

Question 9

Monet and his friend found what in the Kitum cave?

Answer 9

Found slime and bats. It was a petrified rainforest. Also found Crystals

Question 10

What did the first hospital do when they got to Monet?

Answer 10

Flew him to another hospital (on a plane)

Question 11

Who was the doctor that treated Monet?

Answer 11

Dr. Musoke

Question 12

When Monet dies who was by his side?

Answer 12

Dr. Musoke

Question 13

Dr. Musoke is who?

Answer 13

A doctor that tried to treat Monet

Question 14

How many days after Monet died did it take for Musoke to feel something.

Answer 14

9 days

Question 15

Doctor David Silverstein is who

Answer 15

Dr. Musoke’s new physician

Question 16

How did the CDC get involved in this case?

Answer 16

Dr. Silverstein sent tubes of frozen serum to the centered for disease control in Atlanta Georgia.

Question 17

What is Dr. Silverstein other than a doctor?

Answer 17

A pilot and businessman. He flies his own plane and owns the largest private medical practice in East Africa.

Question 18

Who is the personal doctor of the president of Doctor?

Answer 18

Dr. Silverstein

Question 19

Musoke’s blood was positive for what?

Answer 19

Marburg

Question 20

What is Marburg?

Answer 20

African organism with a German name

Question 21

How did Marburg get it’s name?

Answer 21

It was named after the town that thought the world was ending

Question 22

What is Marburg’s Biosafety level?

Answer 22

Bio safety Level 4

Question 23

Who was the first person to be infected with the Marburg virus?

Answer 23

Klaus F.

Question 24

Major Nancy Jaax

Answer 24

A veterinarian for the Army

Question 25

Major Gerald Jaax

Answer 25

Veterinarian for the Army

Question 26

How did Ebola get it’s name?

Answer 26

After the Ebola River which is the headstream of the Mongala river, a tributary of the Congo or the Zaire River

Question 27

Ebola Bio safety level

Answer 27

4 biosafety level

Question 28

What was Nancy Jaax’s specialty?

Answer 28

BIO safety level 4| the hot agents| space suit

Question 29

USAMRIID

Answer 29

United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases

Question 30

Who is the USAMRIID?

Answer 30

Military people|

Question 31

What does the USAMRIID do?

Answer 31

Conducts research to protect soldiers from biological weapons and natural infectious diseases.

Question 32

In 1969 what did Richard Nixon do?

Answer 32

signed an executive order that outlawed the development of offensive biological weapons in the U.S | from then on army labs were converted to peaceful uses and then founded USAMRIID

Question 33

What is the biosafety level 4 suite called?

Answer 33

Known as AA-5 or the Ebola Suite

Question 34

What are the biosafety levels

Answer 34

0,2,3,4

Question 35

Who set up the Ebola suite?

Answer 35

Eugene Johnson

Question 36

Eugene Johnson

Answer 36

An expert in Ebola and it’s sister, Marburg| he infected monkey’s with Ebola and tested different medicines

Question 37

What is another name for the Ebola virus?

Answer 37

The Ebola Zaire

Question 38

The Ebola virus contains how many proteins?

Answer 38

7 distinct types of large molecules| 3 of them are vaguely understood and the other 4 are completely unknown.

Question 39

Ebola does what in 10 days

Answer 39

What takes AIDS 10 years to accomplish

Question 40

Who was Nancy Jaax’s immediate supervisor?

Answer 40

Lt. Colonel Anthony Johnson

Question 41

Who is Tony Johnson?

Answer 41

Anthony Johnson

Question 42

Nancy, before getting the job in Biosafety level 4 she cut her hand how?

Answer 42

Cut her hand on a butcher knife because she couldn’t find her can opener. She’s also a moron.

Question 43

Where was the cut?

Answer 43

The middle of her right palm. Very deep.

Question 44

Bio Safety Levels

Answer 44

0, 2, 3, 4