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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who is Charles Monet? | A French expatriate living in western Kenya. In January 1980 he gets very sick with Marburg virus while traveling on an airplane. |
| Lieutenant Colonel Nancy Jaax | Veterinary pathologist at USAMRIID. Begins work with the Ebola virus in 1983. She gets a hole in her biohazard space suit glove. |
| Colonel Gerald (Jerry) Jaax | Married to Nancy Jaax. Chief of the veterinary division at USAMRIID. Became mission leader when the Reston, Virginia biohazard outbreak occured in the monkey house. |
| Ebola | Extremely lethal (deadly) virus from the tropics, its exact origins unknown. It has 3 known subtypes: Ebola Zaire, Ebola Sudan, and Eboala Reston. These are closely related to the Marburg virus. |
| Eugene (Gene) Johnson | CIviliam virus hunter working for the Army. Specialist in Ebola. In the spring of 1988 after the death of Peter Cardinal, he leads an Army expedition to Kitim Cave in Mount Elgon. |
| Peter Cardinal | A Danish boy about 10 years old visiting his parents in Kenya in the summer of 1987. He dies of the Marburg virus. The Army names a strain of the virus after him. |
| Dan Dalgard | Veterinarian at the Reston Primate Quarantine Unit (the Reston monkey house) |
| Peter Jahrling | Civilian Army virologist. Codiscoverer of the strain of virus that burns (spreads) through the Reston monkey house. |
| Tom Geisbert | An intern at USAMRIID. In charge of the operation of the electron microscope. Codiscoverer of the Ebola Reston virus along with Peter Jahrling. |
| Colonel C.J. Peters, MD | Chief of the disease assessment division at USAMRIID. Overall leader of the Reston biohazard operation. |
| Major General Philip K. Russell, MD | The general who gave the command to dispatch the military teams to Reston monkey house. |
| Dr. Joseph B. McCormick | Chief of the Special Pathogens Branch of the CDC (Center for Disease Control) Treated human Ebola patients in a hut in Sudan, where he stuck himself with a bloody needle. |
| Amplification | Multiplication of a virus through either 1. the body of an individual host or 2. a population of hosts. |
| Brick | (Military slang) Pure crystal-like block of packed virus particles that grows inside a cell. Also known as an inclusion body. In the book often called crystalloid. |
| Bubble Stretcher | Portable biocontainment pod used for transportation of a hot patient. |
| Hot Zone | An infected and lethal area where a known Level 4 virus is active and killing hosts (animal or humans). |
| Burn | An explosive chain of lethal transmission. example of: Charles Monet vomiting blood onto doctors who treated him in the hospital. |
| Chemturion Space Suit | Pressurized heavy duty biological space suit used in Biosafety Level 4 containment areas. Also know as a blue suit because of the bright blue color. |
| Crash and Bleed Out (Military slang) | To die of shock, with profuse (a lot) hemorrhages (bleeding) from the orifices (openings like nose, mouth,anus) of the body. |
| Crystalloid | Brick-Pure crystal-like block of paced virus particles that grows inside a cell. Also known as an inclusion body. In the book often called crystalloid. |
| Electron Microscope | Large and very powerful microscope that uses a beam of electrons to enlarge the image of a very small object, such as a virus, and replicate (create an image) on a screen. |
| Emerging Viruses | Viruses that have recently increased their incidence and appear likely to continue increasing. |
| Environchem | Green liquid disinfectant used in air-lock chemical showers. An effective virus killer. |
| Explosive Chain of Lethal Transmission | sort of biological meltdown where a lethal infectious agent (virus) spreads rapidly through a population, killing a large percentage of the population. Also known as burning |
| Extreme Amplification | Rapid multiplication of a virus everywhere in a host (animal or human), partly transforming the host into a virus. |
| Filovirus | A family of viruses that comprises only Ebola and Marburg. In the book also called Thread viruses. |
| Gray Area or Gray Zone | Intermediate (in between) area or room between a hot zone and the normal world. A place whre the two worlds meet. example: Kitim cave or monkey house is the hot zone and a tented area (gray area or gray zone) is between the cave and the normal world. |
| Hatbox (Military slang) | Cylindrical biohazard container made of waxed cardboard. Also known as an ice cream container. |
| HIV | Human immunodeficiency virus, the cause of AIDS. It is an emerging Level 2 agent from the rain forests of Africa. Exact origin unkown. Now amplifying globally. |
| Host | Organism that serves as a home to, and often as a food supply for a parasite, such as a virus. |
| Hot Agent | Extremely lethal (deadly) virus. Potentially airborne (virus that can travel through air) |
| Hot Suite | A group of Biosafety Level 4 laboratory rooms. |
| Index Case | First known case in an outbreak of infectious disease. sometimes spreads the disease widely. |
| Kinshasa Highway | Aids highway. The main route by which HIV traveled during its breakout from the central African rain forest. The road links Kinshasa, in Zaire, with East Africa. |
| Marburg Virus | Closely related to Ebola. Was initially called stretched rabies. |
| Mayinga Strain | Hottest known strain of Ebola virus. comes from a nurse known as Mayinga N., who died in Zaire in 1976 (Ebola Zaire) |
| Microbreak | Small, sometimes almost invisible outbreak of an emerging virus. |
| Nuke (Military slang) | In biology, an attempt to render a place sterile. |
| Racal Suit | Portable, positive pressure space suit with a battery powered air supply. For use in fieldwork with extreme biohazards that are believed to be airborne. Also called orange suit because of the bright orange color. |
| Replication | Self directed copying. Also see amplification. |
| Sentinel Animal | Susceptible animal used as an alarm for the presence of a hot agent, since no instrument can detect a hot agent. Similar to a canary bird put in a coal mine. |
| SHF | Simian (refers to monkeys,apes,etc.) hemorrhagic fever. A monkey virus that is harmless to humans. |
| Slammer (Military slang) | The Biosafety Level 4 containment hospital at USAMRIID. |
| Sterilization | Unequivocal (complete) total distruction of all living organisms. Extremely difficult to achieve in practice, and almost impossible to verify afterward. |
| Submarine (Military slang) | The Biosafety Level 4 morgue (place for dead people stay until buried or disposed of) at USAMRIID. |
| Third Spacing | Massive hemorrhagic bleeding under the skin. |
| USAMRIID | United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, at Fort Detrick, in Frederick, Maryland. Also called the Institute |
| Virus | Disease causing agent smaller than a bacterium, consisting of a shell made of protens and membranes and a core containing DNA or RNA. a virus depends on living cells in order to replicate. |
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