Ebola Chapter 1

Leslie Gutierrez
Ms. Malonek
Biology 1/2
1 December 2014


Symptoms

• Massive headache
• Throbbing pain behind pain behind eyeballs
• His eyeballs ached
• His temples began to ache, the pain seeming to circle around inside his head. (It would not to go away with aspirin)
• Severe backache
• Became nauseated, spiked ever and began to vomit
• His vomiting grew intense and turned into dry heaves
• His face lost all appearance of life and set itself into an expressionless mask with the eyeballs fixed , paralytic, and staring
• The eyelids were slightly droopy, which gave him a peculiar appearance, as if his eyes were popping our of his head and half-closed at the same time
• The eyeballs themselves seemed almost dozen in their sockets, and they turned bright red
• The skin of his face turned yellowish, with brilliant star like red speckles.
• His personality changed. He became sullen, resentful, angry, and his memory seemed to be blown away. 
• expressionless mass of bruises 
• his whole head is turning black-and-blue
• the connective tissue in his face is dissolving, and his face appears to hang from the underlying bone, as id the face is detached itself from the skull 

Possible Ways Monet was Exposed

• The doctors at the hospital examined Monet, and could not come u with any explanation for what he might some kind of bacterial infection, they gave him injections of antibiotics, but the antibiotics had no effect on his illness. 
• his job, which was to take care of the sugar factory's water-pumping machinery, which drew water from the Nzoia River and delivered it to many miles of sugar-cane fields
• HIV or AIDS
• the weaver bird or beavers or crow
• food
• his trip to Mount Elgon with this woman from the nearby town of Eldoret 
• volcanic dust from Mount Elgon
• the monkey or baboon
• the steam that gurgled out of the rain forest 
• African olive trees as they walk to their campsite
• podocarpus trees 
• Kitum Cave- they found shelves inside the cave coated with green slime and Monet may have put his hand in the ooze
• Monet ran his ran over the minerals in the petrified rain forest in Kitum Cave
• over it hung a velvety mass of bats, which had fouled the pillar with black guano-a different type of guano from the green slime near the mouth of the cave, which Monet may have put his hand in 

Once Monet was effected with Ebola, many strange and absurd symptoms occurred. His intestinal muscles started to die and the intestines began to start going slack. Monet also began with a massive headache and throbbing pain behind pain behind eyeballs, which ached. His temples began to also ache as well, the pain seeming to circle around inside his head and would not to go away with aspirin. In addition, he also had severe backache and became nauseated, spiked ever and began to vomit. Not only did his vomiting grow intense and turned into dry heaves, his face also lost all appearance of life and set itself into an expressionless mask with the eyeballs fixed , paralytic, and staring. His eyelids were slightly droopy, which gave him a peculiar appearance, as if his eyes were popping our of his head and half-closed at the same time. Plus, the eyeballs themselves seemed almost dozen in their sockets, and they turned bright red. The skin of his face turned yellowish, with brilliant star like red speckles and his personality changed. He became sullen, resentful, angry, and his memory seemed to be blown away, instead of the nice, friendly man he was known to be.  Monet also had expressionless mass of bruises and his whole head began turning black-and-blue. Once the virus began, the connective tissue in his face is dissolving, and his face appeared to be hanging from the underlying bone, as if the face was detached from the skull. Tiny spots in his brain are liquefying and the higher function of consciousness are winking out first, leaving the deeper parts of the brain stem still alive and functioning. Most importantly, Monet got constant nose bleeds from both nostrils, a shining cloteless, arterial liquid that drips over his teeth and chin.

Source:

http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/symptoms/