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The Hot Zone (pg. 1 - 73) Flashcards

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1
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Where is the AIDS Highway

A

Africa, the Kinshasa Highway

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Why is the AIDS highway so important?

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Prostitutes had aids and spread it by truckers

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Charles Monet

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

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4
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HIV and AIDS is a what BIO safety level?

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BIO Safety level 2

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AIDs got it’s name from

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acquired immunodeficiency syndrome

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HIV got its name by

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The monkey version SIV

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What’s the name of the cave?

A

Kitum Cave

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What happened at Kitum cave?

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

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Monet and his friend found what in the Kitum cave?

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

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

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Flew him to another hospital (on a plane)

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Who was the doctor that treated Monet?

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Dr. Musoke

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When Monet dies who was by his side?

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Dr. Musoke

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Dr. Musoke is who?

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A doctor that tried to treat Monet

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

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9 days

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Doctor David Silverstein is who

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Dr. Musoke’s new physician

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How did the CDC get involved in this case?

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

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What is Dr. Silverstein other than a doctor?

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

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Who is the personal doctor of the president of Doctor?

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Dr. Silverstein

19
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Musoke’s blood was positive for what?

A

Marburg

20
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What is Marburg?

A

African organism with a German name

21
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How did Marburg get it’s name?

A

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

22
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What is Marburg’s Biosafety level?

A

Bio safety Level 4

23
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Who was the first person to be infected with the Marburg virus?

A

Klaus F.

24
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Major Nancy Jaax

A

A veterinarian for the Army

25
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Major Gerald Jaax

A

Veterinarian for the Army

26
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How did Ebola get it’s name?

A

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

27
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Ebola Bio safety level

A

4 biosafety level

28
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What was Nancy Jaax’s specialty?

A

BIO safety level 4| the hot agents| space suit

29
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USAMRIID

A

United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases

30
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Who is the USAMRIID?

A

Military people|

31
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What does the USAMRIID do?

A

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

32
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In 1969 what did Richard Nixon do?

A

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

33
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What is the biosafety level 4 suite called?

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Known as AA-5 or the Ebola Suite

34
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What are the biosafety levels

A

0,2,3,4

35
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Who set up the Ebola suite?

A

Eugene Johnson

36
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Eugene Johnson

A

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

37
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What is another name for the Ebola virus?

A

The Ebola Zaire

38
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The Ebola virus contains how many proteins?

A

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

39
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Ebola does what in 10 days

A

What takes AIDS 10 years to accomplish

40
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Who was Nancy Jaax’s immediate supervisor?

A

Lt. Colonel Anthony Johnson

41
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Who is Tony Johnson?

A

Anthony Johnson

42
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Nancy, before getting the job in Biosafety level 4 she cut her hand how?

A

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

43
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Where was the cut?

A

The middle of her right palm. Very deep.

44
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Bio Safety Levels

A

0, 2, 3, 4

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