Blog #2

Many people are inconsiderate towards sickness and the well being of others when they are sick. In the novel The Hot Zone the nun treats people with malaria and when Monet boards a plane with other people when he is severely ill. When the nun is treated people at a church for malaria, she only uses one or two needles. The needles she uses are injected from one person to the next and not being sterilized very often. Some of the people that come up are just rushed through to get to the next person but not every person has malaria. When a person with Ebola or Marburg comes through the nun does not notice and uses the same needle. Also when Monet is sent onto a plane and through an airport when he is in severe condition, nobody thinks about how others will be affected. Monet is even throwing up black vomit when on the plane in the airport. On the plane Monet hands off the bags of vomit to the fight attendants, Monet should not be careless when he sick with a serious disease. Once Monet is at the other hospital nobody at the hospital realizes his condition.

Blog #1

In the novel The Hot Zone, animal cruelty is a major dilemma faced. The Hot Zone is an example of both the good and bad animal use, specifically monkeys. The bad part of what the U.S. Army is doing to the monkeys is that they are purposefully injected the healthy monkeys with the deadly virus called Ebola. After the monkeys are infected with the virus they give the monkeys a treatment to find out if the treatment can help cure Ebola. Usually the monkeys die and are dissected to find the cause of death. The important need for these monkeys is that they help people become more similar with the Ebola virus. These monkeys also help with treatment and cures for viruses like Ebola. The characters involved in the animal cruelty parts of the novel are Nancy Jaax (the women who fights to work in bio 4 and cuts her glove when dissecting a monkey), Gene Johnson (the guy in charge of the Ebola experiment), and Tony Johnson (Nancy's immediate supervisor and is with her when she cuts her glove). These characters do not mean to be cruel or hurtful to the monkeys in any way. Actually the characters involved in Ebola experiment do not like the sight of blood they just want to help the lives of other animals and humans in the greatest way possible.