{"id":15522,"date":"2020-09-13T20:42:31","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T00:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=15522"},"modified":"2020-09-27T15:18:12","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T19:18:12","slug":"the-hot-zone-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/the-hot-zone-characters\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hot Zone Characters: 9 People You Should Know"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Who are <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/ebola-book-the-hot-zone\/\">The Hot Zone<\/a> <\/em>characters? What does each character do in the book?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Hot Zone characters are mainly scientists, researchers, doctors, or patients. 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Jerry Jaax was the chief of USAMRIID\u2019s veterinary division. Although he had no experience with extreme biohazard agents, he and his team knew well how to handle monkeys.&nbsp;<br>Jerry Jaax conferred with Johnson about how to approach the mission. <strong>They\u2019d have to be extremely careful while sterilizing Reston to prevent the virus from escaping and spreading.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1983, a U.S. Army civilian scientist and Ebola expert named Eugene Johnson led research on the Ebola and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/ebola-marburg\/\">Marburg viruses<\/a>. <strong>Johnson and his team infected monkeys with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/zaire-ebolavirus\/\">Ebola Zaire<\/a>, then gave them various drugs in hope of finding one that either treated or cured the virus.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Johnson conducted his experiments at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/united-states-army-medical-research-institute-of-infectious-diseases\/\">United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases<\/a> (USAMRIID) at Fort Detrick, Maryland. 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Geisberg collected more samples from the monkey liver, and he captured electron-microscope photos that convinced Peters that it was, indeed, a filovirus.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Peter Jahlring<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Peter Jahrling, a civilian virologist at USAMRIID.<\/strong> Dalgard believed the disease killing these monkeys was simian hemorrhagic fever (SHF), which was fatal for monkeys but didn\u2019t affect humans. After some testing, Jahrling tentatively agreed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Dalgard got the verdict from USAMRIID, he killed the rest of the monkeys in Room F, in order to stop the disease from spreading to monkeys in other rooms.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dan Dalgard<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>When the company\u2019s veterinarian, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/dan-dalgard-the-hot-zone\/\">Dan Dalgard<\/a>, dissected the corpses, he found the monkeys\u2019 spleens were swollen and there was blood in their intestines. Seeking a second opinion, <strong>Dalgard sent samples from the monkeys to a virologist at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), <\/strong>which developed vaccines and studied how to contain outbreaks from weaponized or naturally occurring biological threats.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Richard Preston<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Four years after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/ebola-reston\/\">Ebola Reston<\/a> hit the monkey house, the author, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/richard-preston-the-hot-zone\/\">Richard Preston<\/a>, took his own journey to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/kitum-cave\/\">Kitum Cave<\/a>. <strong>Preston wanted to look around the cave, where the subject of all his research presumably originated.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When he arrived near Kitum Cave, he set up camp in the same area where Charles Monet had camped on New Year\u2019s Eve, 13 years earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>The Hot Zone<\/em> Patients <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>These The Hot Zone characters are patients that appeared in the book as people who were identified as being early hosts for the virus, and possible spreaders or the outbreak. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Charles Monet<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1980, Charles Monet, a French expatriate living in Western Kenya, spent New Year\u2019s Day exploring Kitum Cave with a friend. A week later, he began getting sick.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mayinga <\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, in Kinshasa, a nurse from Ngaliema Hospital who helped care for Sister M. E. became sick.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite her symptoms, the nurse, named <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/mayinga-the-hot-zone\/\">Mayinga<\/a>, spent two days walking through Kinshasa. During those two days, she waited in line at the Zairean foreign ministry, took taxis, visited two hospitals, and sat in crowded waiting rooms.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most likely, Mayinga knew she\u2019d contracted the virus but was in denial. She visited the foreign ministry in hopes of getting a travel permit before she became visibly sick. 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