If, by any chance, I was in a hospital and someone infected with the virus was being treated there I could be effected or have the potential of being effected by Ebola or even the Marburg strain. The way that this would happen is by some of their contaminated blood entering my bloodstream. This is not all that hard to believe, it could easily happen.

If I were doctor, I could be eventually be involved in a medical dilemma such as the one that was talked about in the book. Doctors can deal with dozens and dozens of patients a day. As a doctor, it would be my duty to study and know about the virus. Because the virus can be so contagious, I would also be responsible for knowing ways of preventing the spread of the disease. If I were a scientist in the medical field, I would research different ways of preventing not just the disease, but also how

If there were an outbreak like the one in the book, there would be a damaging effect as to the manpower of government agencies. The Ebola virus does not pick and choose its victims. Government workers would not be excluded from the death toll. Everyone is at risk, especially those who would be exposed to it while in the line of duty. Doctors, ambulance drivers, policemen, firemen, they would all be exposed to the virus simply by doing what they would normally do while working. The significant loss of manpower would have a devastating effect. There may be less police officers to control riots that could arise due to the panic of the outbreak. Also, there may be less doctors to fight the problem. Doctors could very easily come in contact with the virus becoming infected themselves. Without doctors it would be impossible to fight the virus.

this is money that, if it weren't for Ebola, could be going towards other worthwhile causes.

There were many parts of the book that I did not necessarily like. The author often went into great sickening detail about how the Ebola virus affects the victim's body. One of the parts in the book that I liked least was probably at the beginning of the book. The author does all too good of a job describing the effects of the virus. The part I hated most was when he described the bleeding that the infected person goes through. He describes how the person would bleed through every opening in their body, including several unmentionable openings. There was also another part of the book that I was not too fond of. There was a part where one of the victims throws up on a doctor. He describes vividly how the vomit gets into the doctors mouth and eyes. This was probably the most sickening part of the book.

I believe that there were interventions that were overlooked in the story. The monkeys that were the carriers of the disease could have been examined more thoroughly. In their defense, they had no way of knowing that the monkeys were infected.

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