The Cobra Event Chapter Summary
Gena Walker
Biology Dear Book Report
March 6, 2008
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The Cobra Event
The “Cobra Event” by Richard Preston was an extraordinary book about an eruption of an unknown disease in New York. The disease started like the common cold but after a period of time blood blistering would begin in the mouth, nasopharynx, and on the eyelids, a series of seizers would begin and during the seizers, the infected started a process of self cannibalization. After having found two bodies of victims of the unknown outbreak Lex Nathanson, the medical examiner of the state of New York, called down to Walter Mellis with The Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia, in need of a pathologist to help with the case and Mellis sent Alice Austen, M.D, a twenty-nine-year-old …show more content…
She began to put the pieces of the case to together and she discovered the cause of the virus outbreak. It was what appeared to be a small child’s toy, but actually it was a human trail of a biological bomb that dispersed a small amount of infectious bio particles when opened. She took her findings all the way to the F.B.I. where she took part in a recorded conference with members from many high ranking military offices, a man from the Office of the Attorney General, at the Justice Department, and another man with the National Security Council of the White House. After the conference Austin along with Will Hopkins, Mark Littleberry, and a large team of other scientist specialized in many different fields, began to set up a private research lab on Governors Island in New York to determine the true diagnosis of the Cobra virus and to find the mastermind behind the creation of it . The team later discovered that Cobra was a mixture of smallpox, autographa California nuclear polyhedrosis virus, and the common cold, and it was able to elicit a form of Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome in both male and female humans which
Biology Dear Book Report
March 6, 2008
First Block
The Cobra Event
The “Cobra Event” by Richard Preston was an extraordinary book about an eruption of an unknown disease in New York. The disease started like the common cold but after a period of time blood blistering would begin in the mouth, nasopharynx, and on the eyelids, a series of seizers would begin and during the seizers, the infected started a process of self cannibalization. After having found two bodies of victims of the unknown outbreak Lex Nathanson, the medical examiner of the state of New York, called down to Walter Mellis with The Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia, in need of a pathologist to help with the case and Mellis sent Alice Austen, M.D, a twenty-nine-year-old …show more content…
She began to put the pieces of the case to together and she discovered the cause of the virus outbreak. It was what appeared to be a small child’s toy, but actually it was a human trail of a biological bomb that dispersed a small amount of infectious bio particles when opened. She took her findings all the way to the F.B.I. where she took part in a recorded conference with members from many high ranking military offices, a man from the Office of the Attorney General, at the Justice Department, and another man with the National Security Council of the White House. After the conference Austin along with Will Hopkins, Mark Littleberry, and a large team of other scientist specialized in many different fields, began to set up a private research lab on Governors Island in New York to determine the true diagnosis of the Cobra virus and to find the mastermind behind the creation of it . The team later discovered that Cobra was a mixture of smallpox, autographa California nuclear polyhedrosis virus, and the common cold, and it was able to elicit a form of Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome in both male and female humans which