Saturday, May 8, 2010
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.
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