week #8

                    If I was Nancy Jaax I would be freaking out right about now. Nancy started working in her new job asap, which is pretty scary if you ask me. Her boss told her to inspect a big male monkey in a cage because he seemed dead, and so he was so Nancy and her boss carried out this monkey together to get further inspection and she noticed how the monkey still had his canine fangs which shook her up a little. One bite from an infected monkey would sure get them infected. Nancy laid this monkey on the table while grabbing her tools to finish inspection, she noticed red splotches big enough to see through the monkeys thick hair. As she cut open the chest cavity of the monkey she had to get cleaning because this monkey was diluted in a pool of Ebola blood. Everything in the monkey was filled with the virus, kinda freaked Nancy out so she told herself often to stay calm and slow down the procedure.
                   The Ebola virus is very similar to AIDS how it mutates each time and no one can figure out the pattern, it just links on and doesn't stop until all is taken over and the host can no longer feed the virus. The part that I read this week made my heart race it was so mind boggling. Nancy had to cut open the skull but they aren't allowed to use sharp objects in the lab so the had to use pliers and crack it open. They put the organs in preservatives so they could later research among them; while doing this she noticed a rip in part of her 3 gloves she was wearing and took it off to only find more monkey blood on the inside of  her second glove, and a rip in the second glove while her hand felt wet and clammy on the inside. Nancy flipped, showed her boss and told her to decontaminate immediately. Turns out when she left her band aid on she ended up freaking over her own blood and ending up being okay, but she still had a breach in the suit, just not all the way. Whew, that was intense.

week #7

                     In 1976 cases in Africa started to break out, no one knew why until they had a theory that the virus spread from the dead to the living. Many funerals happen often, before people get buried loved ones often kiss the dead before no further existence on earth; which led to that theory because a lot of people who said their goodbyes by kissing ended up getting Ebola a few weeks later.

                    I posted a previous post stating all about Nancy Jaax and her wanting to learn about and handle the Ebola virus in her job, well shes back. Nancy was so excited about the job, she broke down in tears of joy in front of her boss. she was beyond thrilled even though there were rumors about her having shaky hands and not being able to do the work because she was a married women. but when she had an interview with her boss he believed she was perfect; he still needed to make sure the rumors weren't true so he supervised her when working in the lab. they had to go through all the steps to get ready to face the hot agents, which were a lot but totally worth it if you didn't want to become the viruses host. the monkeys were back also, some injected with the virus and others not. there was a drastic change in personality for healthy and unhealthy monkeys. That's all I read about this week but I think it was pretty interesting reading about Ebola. it may not seem as cool to you but I like it.

Week #6

I am continuing on into "Hot Zone." 

So, where did we leave off... Oh yes! The monkeys. 

While the infected monkeys where on an island, the island seemed to be a place where smugglers went to hide goods and trade monkeys. Knowing this it wouldn't take long for the virus to spread. This lady, Nancy, lives a happy life with two kids, a boy who's 7 and a little girl who's 5. Nancy works for the army as a person who takes care of animals. She wants to get promoted to level four which contains dealing with hot agents. Her boss doesn't think it's a good idea because it's either family or work, she's trying to prove him wrong and do both. Nancy is a killing machine, she's taken years of martial arts and can kill a man with just her legs. She has been working in level two but in order to get to level three she has to pass a vaccination test but she ends up failing miserably and getting sick. There is only one way to get promoted and it's talking to her boss to work with the hot agents. While Nancy starts her new job two of the monkeys had died last night from the ejected Ebola, Nancy knows she needs to put on a space suit and go to dissect the monkeys in order to find out the main preferences of Ebola. Although it starts with monkeys the virus mutates and travels to humans in a heartbeat. So far, so good... We will see what we have next.