Character+Biographies

===Richard Preston often weaves several stories of people affected by viruses together throughout his books. For each character in //The Hot Zone//, create a summary of what happens to him/her during the book. Some characters are only seen once; others may have a major role and show up a lot. Every time an event happens to a character, update their profile below. This will help us remember who did what throughout the book.===

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Charles Monet- Monet was a 56 year old "amateur naturalist" that loved animals but was not a big fan of humanity. He worked hard during the week and on breaks he liked to visit "forest areas near the sugar factory". Charles Monet's only friends were women from Eldoret. He took one of them on his Christmas vacation. They visited a cave and stayed in a tent. When Monet returned home he became ill. His symptoms began with a headache, then he got back pains. His eyes began to bulge and turn red and his face was splotchy with red spots that eventually turned into purple bruise-like spots. Monet became nauseated and had a fever and began to throw up. The symptoms were not all visual, his personality changed as well. He became very passive and he lost his memory. This is called "depersonalization". When Charles Monet kept getting worse, he was told to go to Nairobi Hospital. Once he got to the hospital he was vomiting up black speckled blood. Although receiving treatment from Shem Musoke, he died in the hospital not long after recieving treatment.

Shem Musoke- Shem Musoke was a young doctor that was considered to be the best young doctor at the Nairobi Hospital. He had a warm sense of humor and worked long hours and was good with emergencies. When treating Monet, Musoke came in contact with fluids coming from Monet. He didnt think anything about it and continued to try to save him. Shortly after Monet died, Shem Musoke started to suffer from bad back pain, but didnt think anything about it. The back pains got worse and spread to all the muscles in his body. Medicines did not do anything to his pains. He started to get abdominal pain and it soon became unbearable. Unable to diagnose himself, he turned to Dr. Antonia Bagshawe. She "observed his fever, his red eyes, his jaundice, his abdominal pain, and came up with nothing definate." When operated on, the surgeons could not stop the bleeding. After surgery his kidneys began to fail and shortly after that he died.

Klaus F.- The first person infected with the Marburg agent. He worked at the Behring Works vaccine factory who fed the monkeys and washed their cages.

Mr. Jones- Mr. Jones was a veteranarian that inspected monkeys before being sent to Europe. He inspected approximately 13,000 monkeys a year. Before shipping the monkeys, he only inpected their appearance. Monkeys with lesions or "sick-looking" monkeys were being sent to a small island in Lake Victoria, making the island infected.

Mr. Yu. G.- Mr. G. was the first identified case for the then unknown ebola virus. He was a storekeeper for a cotton facotry in the town of Nzara. They were never able to find out how he contracted the virus, either by bats that roosted in the ceiling of his store, insects that live in the cotton that was piled up inside his factory, or by unknown causes. He was a quiet man, and when he was infected, he was never sent to the hospital and he died a few days later. he eventually spread his virus to two other men who worked with him, and through that transmission, the virus decimated the human population of Sudan.

P. G.- a well-liked man who worked with Mr. Yu. G. He had many friends and mistresses, which allowed the spread of Ebola to travel through the town. He died a few days Mr. G.

Sister M. E.- A Belgian nun who was infected with Ebola. She was taken by another nun and a priest to a hospital in the capital of Zaire, where she propably infected many people along the way.

Mayinga N.- an ambitious nurse who had been taking care of Sister M. E. She became infected when she was taking care of the sister. She would not admit to herself that she had been infected, and she went through large crowds in the city where she probably infected many people.

President Mobutu Sese Seko- leader of Zaire who tried to prevent the virus by using his army to block off the infected zone and shoot anyone who tried to come out

Karl Johnson- a doctor at the C.D.C. and virus hunter whose home terrain was the rainforests of central and South America. Married to Patricia Webb

Patricia Webb- docotr at the C.D.C. who handled and worked with the Ebola virus. Married to Karl Johnson.

Frederick Murphy- one of the world's leading electron-microscope photographers of viruses who wanted to work with and take a closer look at the Ebola virus.

Margaretha Isaacson- doctor who care for Mayinga while she was ill with the virus.

Peter Cardinal- child who was infected with marburg from the Kitum Cave, like Charles monet. He bled out unde his skin and develpoed red eyes as is characteristic with the Marburg Strain

Eugene Johnson- civilian biohazard expert with USAMRIID, who went in to kitum cave with a team of scientists to find nothing about the Marburg virus, with monkeys and insects tht live in the cave.

Nancy and Jerry Jaax- got promoted in the military, and moved to New Jersey, only to be promted again and relocated back to where they started

Dan Dalgard- called in by Bill volt to look at the monkeys, disected one of the monkeys, monkey 053, worked with the company that was holding the monkeys

Peter Jahrling- civilian virologist expert on diseases with monkeys works at USAMRID... worked with practically every hot agent known except Marburg ad Ebola, when asked why not he replyied, "i dont particually feel like dying"

Joan Rhoderick- civilian techinication, the person who cultured the virus from the monkeys.