CBVI @ BARUCH: March 2015

Sunday, March 29, 2015

March 31, 2015

Name:____________________________ Date:__________________

1. Describe the author’s journey to Kitum Cave? Why did he make this journey?

2. How did AIDS likely first appear?

3. Why have vaccines against HIV been unsuccessful?

4. What became of the Reston, Virginia monkey house?

5. What is the author's view on the emergence of these destructive viruses?

March 30, 2015

Name: _____________________ Date:_______________

Describe the Ebola Reston virus strain.

How many humans died from Ebola Reston?

Why is the Reston virus so much like Ebola Zaire, when Reston supposedly comes from Asia?

Sunday, March 22, 2015

March 27, 2015

Name: _________________________ Date:__________________

1. What is the C.D.C.?

2. What is meant by a “chain of command” in relation to biohazard work?

March 26, 2015

Name: ______________________ Date:___________________

Describe the effects of the Ebola virus. How does it appear to be spread?

Describe the Biosafety Level staging area. Describe the suit required for work in Biosafety Level 4

Name:_______________________ Date:__________________

What virus is the Hot Zone mainly talking about?

What town in Virginia experiences an outbreak of Ebola?

How is the ebola virus described in the book?

What does USAMRIID stand for?

How did Nancy Jaax cut her hand? Why is this significant?

March 24, 2015

Name: __________________________ Date;________________

Who was the first documented case of Ebola?

What was Nancy Jaax's rank in the army at the beginning of the book?

How is the ebola virus described in the book?

Aids is mentioned a lot in the Hot Zone. Where is Aids believed to have originated in Africa?

Who is Peter Cardinal?

March 23, 2015

Name:__________________________ Date:____________

Answer the following questions in completer sentences.

What is a symptom of Ebola?

What level of biosafety is ebola at?

What is the mortality rate of Ebola Zaire?

From what cave in Africa did two alleged Ebola cases break out from?

What breed of monkeys was sold to the monkeyhouse in Virginia?

Sunday, March 8, 2015

MARCH 18, 2015

Identify each part of the wall frame

March 17, 2015

“Ebola does things to people that you do not want to think about. The organism is too frightening to handle, even for those who are comfortable and adept in biohazard suits. Many do not care to do research on Ebola because they do not want Ebola to do research on them.” – Chapter 5, pg. 45

March 16, 2015

Describe all the human contacts you have had since you got up this morning. In case of a dangerous exposure, how would you begin the process of contacting them and maybe quarantining them?

March 13, 2015

March 12, 2015

Analyze and explain the following quote

“In biology, nothing is clear, everything is too complicated, everything is a mess, and just when you think you understand something, you peel off a layer and find deeper complications beneath. Nature is anything but simple.”

Marxh 11, 2015

March 10, 2015

Group One and Two - Define each word

Group Three - Define each word and write a sentence with each word

1. Obligation

2. Antigenic Shift

3. Obliterate

4. Grotesque

5. Implacable

March 9, 2015

Write a paragraph for each to explain your answer

In Reston, Virginia where the Ebola outbreak occurs at a laboratory of Hazleton Research Products. They are all worried about the news media getting hold of the information. What do you do here? Keep it a secret, try to get out in front of the story, or let it all out at once?

If you were one of the military officers in the chain of command and you learned one of the soldier had been exposed to Ebola, what would you do?