Valentina's Reaction to Part 1

Blood Boils
That feeling. The feeling of waking up in the morning, where the throat has a raspy burning sensation and the head would not quit with its annoying pounding. How far would the pain have to go before a person gives up? In The Hot Zone by Richard Preston, the split-quick monkey infected virus, is after a new host.

Preston started the novel with a vivid description of the virus infecting Charles Monet. When it mentioned that he was already casually vomiting and the doctor decided to put him on the plane, I virtually put myself in the plane, and became sick in the stomach when I imagined sitting next to this guy I felt panicked not knowing what to do if I was in that situation. Even after when all those people switched onto different planes that the virus is going to affect the thousands and maybe millions of other people at the airport because one man was placed on that small plane. I thought it was horrifying, that Sister M.E. had to slowly suffer and died alone because of Ebola. When Preston described the hemorrhaging and vomiting (especially the splattered blood on the wall) that the victims made of because of Ebola and Marburg, it made me dread that there’s such a gruesome virus that exists like that. It makes it seem possible that something like the movie I Am Legend, can come true if precautions are not taken. It made me think, if the virus could spread like wildfire, killing every person near a “human virus bomb” (21 Preston) it could easily taken over the world by now, but why hasn’t it? As I read on, people like the Jaaxs and Johnson, who are willing to work inside a chamber infested with the virus, are trying to find a cure for it, even though it seems very unlikely that something like that is ever curable. When I asked my friends and family if they have heard of the virus they simple just ask “What’s that?” or “What does it do?” I’m hoping as I read on that the Nancy Jaax and Tony Johnson found a way to curing the vicious virus, Ebola.