Hot Zone Reading Guide
The Hot Zone Reading Guide
PART ONE: THE SHADOW OF MOUNT ELGON
Something in the forest:
1. Describe three ways the Kinshasa Highways quickened the spread of the HIV virus. a. Drivers were the carriers of this disease and spread it when they traveled from town to town b. Prostitues and truck stops c. Drivers often enter different towns
2. In what ways can a deadly virus be spread to humanity? AIrborne, in water, direct contact, through blood.
Jumper:
3. Monet has "crashed" and is "bleeding out". What would you do if you were in Dr. Mosoke's shoes. If I were in Dr. Mosoke's shoes, I would isolate Monet and I would not send him on a plane to another hospital because he could get infected through air.
4. Do you think more tests should have been done on Monet's corpse? Justify your response. Yes. It is best to run as many tests as possible to get the most accurate results.
Diagnosis:
5. What is your personal opinion about the use of animals in research that could eventually benefit mankind. I think it is a bad idea. BEcause the animals are now becoming infected, they can spread more easily. With people working in the labs, it is very dangerous to have infected animals. The animals could scratch your suit and let air in. The animals can also get through your suit and scratch your skin. This would cause a person to get infected. Also, the affects for animals may be different. For example, if you test a medicine on an animal, it may not work on a human. Animals are not a reliable experimental object because they are very different from humans. Their bodies function differently, and they may interpret the disease in a different way.
A Woman and a Soldier: No questions for this chapter
Project Ebola:
6. Dr. Johnson uses monkeys to test drugs against the deadly Ebola virus because their DNA is so similar ours that they could one day find a cure or vaccine against a virus that has the potential to kill 90% of the world's population.
PART ONE: THE SHADOW OF MOUNT ELGON
Something in the forest:
1. Describe three ways the Kinshasa Highways quickened the spread of the HIV virus. a. Drivers were the carriers of this disease and spread it when they traveled from town to town b. Prostitues and truck stops c. Drivers often enter different towns
2. In what ways can a deadly virus be spread to humanity? AIrborne, in water, direct contact, through blood.
Jumper:
3. Monet has "crashed" and is "bleeding out". What would you do if you were in Dr. Mosoke's shoes. If I were in Dr. Mosoke's shoes, I would isolate Monet and I would not send him on a plane to another hospital because he could get infected through air.
4. Do you think more tests should have been done on Monet's corpse? Justify your response. Yes. It is best to run as many tests as possible to get the most accurate results.
Diagnosis:
5. What is your personal opinion about the use of animals in research that could eventually benefit mankind. I think it is a bad idea. BEcause the animals are now becoming infected, they can spread more easily. With people working in the labs, it is very dangerous to have infected animals. The animals could scratch your suit and let air in. The animals can also get through your suit and scratch your skin. This would cause a person to get infected. Also, the affects for animals may be different. For example, if you test a medicine on an animal, it may not work on a human. Animals are not a reliable experimental object because they are very different from humans. Their bodies function differently, and they may interpret the disease in a different way.
A Woman and a Soldier: No questions for this chapter
Project Ebola:
6. Dr. Johnson uses monkeys to test drugs against the deadly Ebola virus because their DNA is so similar ours that they could one day find a cure or vaccine against a virus that has the potential to kill 90% of the world's population.