VirusMap


 * Track the location of the viruses throughout its breakouts. You may wish to reference or bring in an actual map.

AIDS Aids, caused by HIV, started its breakout in the rain forest of central Africa. The Aids virus began to breakout quietly along the Kinhasa highway, that is a transcontinental railroad that travels from east to west and across the shores of lake Victoria.

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The main virus talked about in this section of the book is ebola. Ebola is found primarily in Central Africa, but breakouts have also occured in Europe, Asia, and even a few in North America as well. The heaviest breakout was in the Central-African country Zaire, where it has broken out numerous times since the 1970's.

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before this chapter in the book, the only thing we knew about the virus's breakout starting point was that it was in Zaire. We learn now that it began with a schoolteacher who came down with the virus from a dirty needle, which means that the person who used the needle before him had Ebola. This happened in Zaire, near the Ebola river, and Ebola Zaire reportedly spread to near 55 villages surrounding the head of the river, before dying out and disappearing.

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On October 2, 1989, 100 cynomolgus macaques (Macaca fascicularis) from Ferlite Farms in Mindanao Island, Philippines were flown from Manila, through Amsterdam to New York, and then transported by truck to Hazleton Research Products' (HRP) Reston Primate Quarantine Unit in Reston, Virginia.

The physical building in which the outbreak occurred was demolished on 5/30/1995 and a new building constructed in its place. This facility, which is part of an office park, became a Kindercare and is a Mulberry Child Care and preschool center as of 2007.

The cell that Tom Geisbert thinks is infected with Marburg was discovered in the lab that he worked at in Washington D.C the nations capital. The tool described in the reading is a diamond knife. The blade of which is very small but can cut through virtually anything.

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"in central africa, while leading an expedition in search of Ebola virus, he had found himself in termite country during swarming season, and he had waited by termite nests and collected the termites as they swarmed out and had eaten them raw."