Posted on 08/06/2014 5:35:41 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
In October 1989 people in the community of Reston, Virginia went about their daily lives not realizing that a serious crisis was developing right in their back yards that would not be entirely resolved until March 1990. It was a serious calamity that could have wiped out the entire population. This dire emergency was described twenty years ago by Richard Preston in his non-fiction book, “The Hot Zone.” The “hot zone” refers to an “area that contains lethal, infectious organisms” also dubbed “hot agent,” an “extremely lethal virus, potentially airborne.” (Richard Preston, The Hot Zone, Random House, New York, 1994, p. 296)
The people in the book are real, two victims’ names have been changed, and the narrative and dialogue were masterfully reconstructed from interviews and memories of those who participated in the crises.
Hazelton Research Products, a division of Corning, Inc. was importing and selling lab animals. On October 4, 1989, the monkey house called Reston Primate Quarantine Unit located not far from Leesburg Pike, received a shipment of one hundred crab-eating monkeys (a type of macaque) from the Philippines, caught on the island of Mindanao. Two of the monkeys were dead in their shipping crates. By the first of November, 29 of the monkeys were dead, most of them in Room F. The heating and air system had failed so it was assumed the deaths had occurred from ambient conditions. Each night more macaques died. By November 16, a tentative diagnosis was given “simian hemorrhagic fever.”
Thomas Geisbert, an intern at the Institute discovered under his electron microscope the dreaded Ebola virus. Dr. Jahrling tested the virus cultures from the macaques against three known blood serums:
Musoke (test for Marburg virus) Boniface (test for Ebola Sudan) Mayinga (test for Ebola Zaire)
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Bring Out Your Dead
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
I find this troubling:
Those Hazleton workers who had the virus—I’m pretty sure they got it through the air.” (p. 257)
I’m not worrying about Ebola. There’s more than enough domestic stuff to concern us.
Health Officials Issue Warning After Eagle County Man Dies From Hantavirus
http://denver.cbslocal.com/2014/08/05/health-officials-issue-warning-after-eagle-county-man-dies-from-hantavirus/
Read “THE HOT ZONE” by Richard Preston for free here:
http://learn.flvs.net/educator/common/EnglishIIv10/TheHotZone.pdf
“In October 1989 people in the community of Reston, Virginia went about their daily lives not realizing that a serious crisis was developing right in their back yards that would not be entirely resolved until March 1990. It was a serious calamity that could have wiped out the entire population. This dire emergency was described twenty years ago by Richard Preston in his non-fiction book, “The Hot Zone.” The “hot zone” refers to an “area that contains lethal, infectious organisms” also dubbed “hot agent,” an “extremely lethal virus, potentially airborne.”
I have some 3M masks that are good against anything, even Anthrax. Looks like I’ll have to get some more.
It is not just the mask that is needed, you need to know how to properly decon yourself or family/friends.
I suspect the doctors got sick due to improper doffing of protective PPE, contacting surfaces in the decon area/hot zone.
Do you have eye protection as well? Your eyes are vulnerable as well.
I remember when this happened but I don’t remember it being called Ebola.
The Hot Zone is a non-fiction page turner. I have read it twice. You cannot put it down. It is that good!
Read last night up until they introduced COLs Jaxx....I couldn’t sleep very good last night. Literally, Monte’s visit to Kitum cave made him a human, biological bomb. Terrifying.
You need P100 filters. N95 almost worthless.
Jaxx was very lucky!
Exactly; even the best specialist can slack off every once in a while.
Sometimes it is not even really “slacking off.”
If you have ever been trained for hazmat work or pharmaceutical clean room work it can be astounding that one is so conscious and so careful...and yet you still...still ...come up contaminated or with a hot particle.
So given the situation on the ground there, I’d be hard pressed to think we wouldn’t have people providing care turning up with ebola.
I can only think that one major reason is that a lot of the areas that hold the patients are not properly set up to handle something at this level. So I admit, blaming the carer is wrong of me. I do still believe that right now, we’re insanely lucky that we have the technology that we do.
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