The Ending

The world is in a round about way trying to control the population of many different species of organisms and that is why there is diseases out there. In the book they make a really good point about this and if one thinks about it, it is very true. No matter how many years go by there are always going to be viruses that people die from because new strain of virus will show up and vaccinations won't fight against them.

The Ending

I really liked the book over all. There were a few times that it seemed kind of slow, but otherwise I really liked it. I thought that it was cool when they found the ebola strain in Washington D.C. in a group of moneys. I was surprised that it was a strain that people didn't really become infected with. I thought that it was cool that they tried to control it and keep it out of the public. I would understand why they would have to because if the public found out about it they would freak out and think that the world is coming to an end. Also, the army and the C.D.C. were fighting over the money house that contained the monkeys with the virus. I think that who ever was there first should get it to control it before it spread and if they both had to work together to control it then they should have worked together. It is werid that ebola can come fast and then just disappear like it was never there. Also in the ending when they were talking about how the world was trying to control the human population.

About half way through

I'm finding some parts of the book kind of boring. I really like the parts when they talk about the cases of Ebola that people have been through. I think that it is also cool that somethings are starting to link up with each other, like the Mount Elgon cases. I just think that it is cool that they have been able to trace back two people to the same place before they got sick. I also think that it was neat how they set up a station at Mount Elgon to study it to see if they could find Ebola or Marburg. They had it set up just like they would if they were back at the lab. I also find it interesting that there are different strains of the Ebola. I guess that it makes sense, because other virus out there have different strains too. I know that the Doctors don't really know a whole lot about the Ebola, but you would think that they could come up with some other way to test for it other than using animals to see if it is in the area. I also know that the tech. wasn't as great either, but some of the doctors didn't like it either. I also find it interesting that they don't really know for sure if it is airborne or not. In some cases it seems like it is, but in others it doesn't. I know that they did a test with the monkeys and it proved to be airborne, but you would think that it would have spread to us humans faster and killed more people if it was, based on how the infected people were just roaming around until they got really sick. I'm really like the book and can't wait to find out more about Ebola.

Chapter 2 and part of 3

I'm really getting into this book. The doctor that helped Monet, Dr. Musoke, came down with the virus. He started to have back pains, but he just ignored them and kept on working. Then the muscles through out his body were starting to bother him and he just thought that it was from working long hours. He didn't really think about Monet until his eyes turned red. Then he remembered how he was trying to help Monet without gloves on, and that Monet vomited into Dr. Musoke's mouth on accident. Monet ended up dead because of the virus. I think that if I was a doctor and wasn't feeling right that I wouldn't go to work because you are trying to help these people who are already sick. You could be spreading what ever it is that you have to the clients. When Dr. Silverstein was in charge of Dr. Musoke, I think that he was very smart about trying to find out what was going on with him. I think that he did the right thing by taking a blood sample and sending it in. They should have done that in the first places before they opened him up in an exploratory surgery. Dr. Silverstein found out that he had Marburg virus and he didn't know what it was so he looked it up. He found out that it first came from monkeys. A vet. was to pick out the sick monkeys to be killed so that sickness wouldn't spread, but the monkeys weren't being taken care of and were being shipped out anyway. To me that was just stupid to send sick animals out into the world when nobody knew what they had.

First chapter

Ok. I have only read the first so called chapter of this book so far and I'm already liking it. It is really drawing my attention in. If a man came to the hospital with a condition that know body knew what it was, I sure wouldn't send them on a plane to send them to another hospital. Sure it would be faster, but you don't know what you could be spreading to every one else. I sure hope that doctors today don't do that, because something like that could whip out a hole bunch of people. I also think that if I was a doctor and didn't know what was wrong with a person, that I wouldn't just jump in with no gloves on. That just asking for trouble. I know that the doctors were trying to save his life, but they could have been a little bit smarter about it.

Picking it out

I choose this book because it sounded interesting to me. It draws me in with what I have heard about it. I think that it draws me in, because of what could happen if a rare viruses got out that could kill lots of people. It just sounds really good to me. I'm very excited to start reading it!