Part 2: Chapters 10-19 Question 42

How do some patients respond to life in the Slammer? How would you react to being in solitary confinement with a possible fatal exposure to a pathogen?

Part 2: Chapters 10-19 Question 41

Why is Kitum Cave so important to the story? How was the monkey house like Kitum
Cave?

Part 2: Chapters 10-19 Question 40

Why are all the beakers and tubes made out of plastic?

Part 2: Chapters 10-19 Question 39

Why could Nancy not confirm the presence of Ebola in the specimens? List the evidence
from the internal organs.

Part 2: Chapters 10-19 Question 38

How does the author characterize the states of order and disorder in life and death terms?
Why are viruses an exception to this rule?

Part 2: Chapters 10-19 Question 37

What could Jarhrling do to test to see if the monkey virus reacted in humans? What did it mean if the cells were glowing?

Part 2: Chapters 10-19 Question 36

Describe the steps to take prior to going into a Level 4 zone.

Part 2: Chapters 10-19 Question 35

Why did they have to move fast with the specimens? Why couldn’t they wait?

Part 2: Chapters 10-19 Question 34

The comparison to AIDS is made here. Compare the deaths so far with the 100 million
predicted in this 1993 book. “And all it did was suppress the immune system.” How does
the HIV virus do this?

Part 2: Chapters 10-19 Question 33

They examine the dirty needle hypothesis. Name two other infectious diseases spread
through dirty needles?

Part 2: Chapters 10-19 Question 32

What is “extreme amplification”?

Part 2: Chapters 10-19 Question 31

Why was Dalgard so afraid of Peters and of letting outsiders into the monkey house?

Part 2: Chapters 10-19 Question 30

What is a species jumper? What other viruses fall under this category?

Part 2: Chapters 10-19 Question 29

What are three ways to eliminate a virus? Which are or are not applicable at this point?

Part 2: Chapters 10-19 Question 28

Why is it important to know how the viruses spread?

Part 2: Chapters 10-19 Question 27

In the chapter Chain of Command, why hadn’t they published the pictures? Why did the General want it published? How does publishing advance science?

Part 2: Chapters 10-19 Question 26

What is a thread virus?

Part 2: Chapters 10-19 Question 25

How would you answer Gen. Russell’s questions about evidence for the virus being
airborne? Summarize Col. Nancy Jaax’s arguments. Did she miss anything?

Part 2: Chapters 10-19 Question 24

In the chapter The Second Angel explain the results of the culture. What was the reaction?

Part 2: Chapters 10-19 Question 23

How could Jahrling test to see if the monkey virus reacted in humans? What did it mean if
the cells were glowing?

Part 2: Chapters 10-19 Question 22

What were the safety precautions Dalgard had already implemented and then what were
the new ones he had to implement?

Part 2: Chapters 10-19 Question 21

What did the evidence from monkey 053’s cells show?

Part 2: Chapters 10-19 Question 20

Dan thinks Marburg could be airborne. Make a list of evidence to support his hypothesis.

Part 2: Chapters 10-19 Question 19

Peter thinks Marburg is not easy to catch. Make a list of evidence to support his hypothesis.

Part 2: Chapters 10-19 Question 18

Neither Peter nor Tom mention the “sniffing incident” to CJ, Why not? Would you have
mentioned it? Why or why not?

Part 2: Chapters 10-19 Question 17

What is “a certain pucker factor”? What is his concern? What is his first idea that he needs
to eliminate? What follow-up tests does CJ have done in order to reconfirm the test
results?

Part 2: Chapters 10-19 Question 16

In retrospect, what was the “pepper” that Tom had seen under the light microscope?

Part 2: Chapters 10-19 Question 15

What are bricks and why are they so dangerous?

Part 2: Chapters 10-19 Question 14

What are inclusion bodies?

Part 2: Chapters 10-19 Question 13

What were some of the possible modes of infection?

Part 2: Chapters 10-19 Question 12

How did Thomas Geisbert determine that the cells under his microscope were a form of
Ebola?

Part 2: Chapters 10-19 Question 11

List three hypotheses about how the virus had apparently jumped from Room F to Room H.

Part 2: Chapters 10-19 Question 10

“The incredible thing about living systems is that no matter how small the view, it is just as
complicated as ever.” What does the author mean by this? Describe some of the
complexity at the cellular or molecular level.

Part 2: Chapters 10-19 Question 9

Describe the six steps of preparing an EM photo.

Part 2: Chapters 10-19 Question 8

What is Pseudomonas and how does it live? What is it’s characteristic smell? Why was it a mistake for Geisbert and Jahrling to smell the flask?

Part 2: Chapters 10-19 Question 7

What’s the difference between an electron microscope and a light microscope? What size
particles can each see?

Part 2: Chapters 10-19 Question 6

How did they culture the Ebola virus? There were at least four different samples, what were they?

Part 2: Chapters 10-19 Question 5

What characterizes the safety conditions in a Level 3 facility?

Part 2: Chapters 10-19 Question 4

What does the spleen do? What was the condition of the spleens in the monkey specimens
compared to a normal monkey spleen?

Part 2: Chapters 10-19 Question 3

Why can’t you do an autopsy of a monkey in front of other monkeys? What does this tell you about advanced animal behavior in this species?

Part 2: Chapters 10-19 Question 2

What are the characteristics of the crab-eating macaque species of monkey? Can you find
a picture? Why are they described as competitors of humans in their natural environment?

Part 2: Chapters 10-19 Question 1

How many monkeys are imported into the United States each year? For what purposes
does this happen? Which government agency(ies) are responsible for overseeing these facilities? How long are monkeys quarantined before distribution?