Hot Zone part 2 – Flashcards

10 miles west of Washington D.C.; can see Washington Monument; first planned suburbs in America; symbol of American belief

Division of Corning, Inc that has the Monkey house

involved with the importation and sale of laboratory animals

The Reston Primate Quarantine Unit

Doctor of veterinary medicine at the Reston Primate Quarantine Unit; Took care of the monkeys if they became sick or needed medical attention; shy and calm

company whose headquarters are on Leesburg Pike in Vienna, Virginia

wholesale facility located not far from the city of Manila in the Philippines; Where Hazleton Research Products accepted the shipment of monkeys from

Philippines where the crab-eating monkeys really originated from

lives along rivers and in mangrove swamps in Southeast Asia; common lab animals because they are cheap and easily obtained; whitish fur on chest and cream-colored fur on back

type of crab eater; long-tailed; protrusive, doglike snout with flaring nostrils and sharp canine teeth; do not like humans; love vegetables and steal them from crops

Name of the crab monkey hierarchy; led by dominant male who maintains control by staring and will kill a human who does so

shot many times in a violent killing

police officer who took the case of John Jaax at Kansas City Homicide

John Jaax’s business partner; died of heart attack; possibly murdered John

intern who discovered and took the first image of the bacteria inside the monkeys; compared what he saw to peter cardinal’s liver cells

whiffed flask with monkey virus

level 4 biocontainment hospital; air locks and double steel doors, tended by nurses and doctors wearing space suits

took his own blood and Geisbert’s to level 4 hot lab and compared them with pieces of liver from Monkey 053

Dissected at least 50 infected monkeys

Jahrling’s office where he fiddled with the flasks of virus culture from the monkey house

Person’s blood used to test Marburg

Person’s blood to test for Ebola Sudan

Person’s blood to test for Ebola Zaire

The way to determine weather the virus was Ebola Zaire/Sudan or Marburg

given mandate by congress to control human disease

ne of the original discoverers of Ebola virus; wizard with electron microscope; first photographed Ebola virus; work hung in art museums

Leader of Army mission against new virus

number of wild monkeys imported to the US from tropic regions each year

colony manager at Reston monkey house

Room at Reston Monkey House that contained only crab-eating monkeys from the October shipment from Ferlite Farms in the Philippines

Dalgard’s diary of what he saw inside the monkeys

swollen spleen; enlarged kidneys; hemorrhage in organs; anorexia; lethargy; nasal discharge; bloody nose

swollen spleen

bloody nose

filters blood and plays role in immune system; normal one is like a jelly doughnut: soft sack with a a drippy red center

solid blood clot the size of a tangerine

civilian virologist; reputation for knowing something about monkey viruses; thought monkeys had Simian hemorrhagic fever (SHF); hunted for viruses in fain forest

meat was wrapped in aluminum foil like pieces of leftover hot dog and leaked over the ice

make it grow inside living cells in a flask of water, drop sample of virus on the flask and it will spread through the cells. If virus likes the cells, it will multiply

civilian technician

A lot like making beer….you follow the recipe and you keep the brew nice and warm until something happens

photographed the cardinal strain that looked like a tangled mass of 6s, Us, gs, Ys, snakes, and Cheerios missed up with patly liquefied human flesh

technician who had started the Reston culture; examined flask contained cells that had been infected with the simian-fever virus that came form Monkey 052; Saw a complicated world in the flask; looked like fried eggs, sunny-side up

the cells were exploded and dead… they detached from the surface of the flask and floated away in the broth

guessed flask had been contaminated and wiped out by pseudomonas

common soil bacterium; smells like Welch’s grape juice

to look in the electron microscope

more powerful than a light microscope and can see deeper into the universe within

3-18 days

12 years old

13 years old

Nancy’s father; dying of cancer

Jerry’s mother; widow living on a ranch

sacrificed all the monkeys in room F in case of possible infection

Believed monkeys had SHF

Over thanksgiving, 5 monkeys randomly died in this room

metal object about an inch long; costs about $4,000; diamond edge; sharpest cutting edge of any tool on earth; sharp enough to split a virus cleanly in half;

used his diamond knife to slice the virus and found it was a filovirus… feared it was Marburg; virus resembled Peter Cardinal’s liver cells

resembled chocolate-chip cookie that was mostly chocolate chips; crystal-like blocks of pure virus

bricks

virus grows in cell..crystalloids appear at center..move outward, toward the surface of cell..breaks apart into hundreds of individual viruses…viruses that are shaped like threads that grow out of the cell like grass….bricks distort cell and bulge it…cell bursts and dies…threads leave into bloodstream and multiply to take over more cells…process repeats

what happens when cells are ready to burst

military chain of command; chief of disease-assessment division of the institute; Texas drawl; spent years hunting hot agents in Central and South America; wore jeans and Hawaiian shirts; used excuse of athletes foot for lack of uniform

“The interesting stuff” Colonel Clarence James Peters called

military slang term that refers to a certain tightening sensation in the nether regions of the body in response to fear

species jumper

1. seal off monkey colony and watch them die 2. sterilize whole place