The Hot Zone: The Chilling True Story of an Ebola Outbreak by Richard Preston

Author:Richard Preston [Preston, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780385495226
Google: E6BKpf2tSkoC
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Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

DAN DALGARD SPENT an uneasy Thanksgiving week. On Monday, he called Peter Jahrling at the Institute to find out if Jahrling had any further news about what had been killing the monkeys at Reston. Jahrling now had a tentative diagnosis. It looked like they really did have SHF. Bad for monkeys, no problem for humans. He said to Dalgard that he felt strongly that it was simian fever, but he was reluctant to say so categorically.

He wanted to play it carefully until the final tests were finished.

Dalgard hung up the phone believing that his decision to sacrifice the monkeys in Room F had been correct. Those monkeys had been inflected with simian fever and would have died anyway. What now worried Dalgard was the possibility that the virus had somehow escaped from Room F. It might be quietly working his way through the building, in which case monkeys might start dying in other rooms. And then the virus would be very hard to control.

On Thanksgiving morning, Dan and his wife drove to Pittsburgh, to be with Dan’s wife’s parents. They drove back to Virginia on Friday, and Dan headed over to the monkey house to see if there had been any changes.

He was shocked by what he found. Over Thanksgiving, five monkeys had died in Room H, two doors down the hall from Room F. So the virus was moving, and what was worse, it was skipping rooms as it moved. How could it do that? Five dead monkeys in one room during the night … He felt very uneasy.

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