<Ul> <Li> "The Shadow of Mount Elgon" delved into the history of filoviruses, as well as speculation about the origins of AIDS . Preston accounts the story of "Charles Monet" (a pseudonym), who might have caught Marburg virus from visiting Kitum Cave on Mount Elgon in Kenya . The author described in great detail the progression of the disease, from the initial headache and backache, to the final stage in which Monet's internal organs fail and he "bleeds out" (i.e., hemorrhages extensively) in a waiting room in a Nairobi hospital . This part also introduced a young promising physician who became infected with Marburg virus while treating Monet . Nancy Jaax's story was told . Viruses, biosafety levels and procedures were described . The Ebola virus disease outbreaks caused by Ebola virus and its cousin, Sudan virus are mentioned . Preston talks to the man who named the Ebola virus . </Li> <Li> "The Monkey House" chronicles the discovery of Reston virus among imported monkeys in Reston, Virginia, and the following actions taken by the U.S. Army and Centers for Disease Control . It starts with the monkey house receiving a shipment of 100 wild monkeys . After four weeks, 29 of these monkeys have died . This is followed by the veterinarian for the facility, Dan Dalgard, examining the dead monkeys and sending the samples to Peter Jahrling, a virologist at United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases . After seeing a rope - like virus under the microscope, it is suspected that the monkeys were infected with a hot agent similar to the Marburg virus . Jahrling then conducts a blood test to find out that the hot agent is the Ebola Zaire virus . This conclusion leads to the Army Medical Research Institute deciding to euthanize all the monkeys in the same room as the infected monkeys . </Li> <Li> "Smashdown" is more on the Reston epizootic, which involved a strain of the virus that does not affect humans but which easily spreads by air, and is very similar to its cousin the Ebola virus . </Li> <Li> "Kitum Cave" tells of the author's visit of the cave that is the suspected home of the natural host animal that Ebola lives inside of . </Li> </Ul> <Li> "The Shadow of Mount Elgon" delved into the history of filoviruses, as well as speculation about the origins of AIDS . Preston accounts the story of "Charles Monet" (a pseudonym), who might have caught Marburg virus from visiting Kitum Cave on Mount Elgon in Kenya . The author described in great detail the progression of the disease, from the initial headache and backache, to the final stage in which Monet's internal organs fail and he "bleeds out" (i.e., hemorrhages extensively) in a waiting room in a Nairobi hospital . This part also introduced a young promising physician who became infected with Marburg virus while treating Monet . Nancy Jaax's story was told . Viruses, biosafety levels and procedures were described . The Ebola virus disease outbreaks caused by Ebola virus and its cousin, Sudan virus are mentioned . Preston talks to the man who named the Ebola virus . </Li> <Li> "The Monkey House" chronicles the discovery of Reston virus among imported monkeys in Reston, Virginia, and the following actions taken by the U.S. Army and Centers for Disease Control . It starts with the monkey house receiving a shipment of 100 wild monkeys . After four weeks, 29 of these monkeys have died . This is followed by the veterinarian for the facility, Dan Dalgard, examining the dead monkeys and sending the samples to Peter Jahrling, a virologist at United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases . After seeing a rope - like virus under the microscope, it is suspected that the monkeys were infected with a hot agent similar to the Marburg virus . Jahrling then conducts a blood test to find out that the hot agent is the Ebola Zaire virus . This conclusion leads to the Army Medical Research Institute deciding to euthanize all the monkeys in the same room as the infected monkeys . </Li> <Li> "Smashdown" is more on the Reston epizootic, which involved a strain of the virus that does not affect humans but which easily spreads by air, and is very similar to its cousin the Ebola virus . </Li>

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