how some handle serious illnesses

People are different in many ways; by looks, by likes, by preference and of course by how they deal with difficult things. Learning that you have a deadly illness is never easy, but how you treat the news can mean all the difference. In the novel The Hot Zone people contract three different, but deadly, strings of Ebola. One nun who caught the disease while working in a hospital/school left her fate to prayer and kept calm, believing that god would care for her. She went to a hospital to get help with this disease that was slowly killing her. When she passed away a nurse, nurse Mayinga, that was caring for her contracted the same disease and went into complete denial. She ignored the fact that she was ill and went to a city to prepare to travel to a different country in order to go to school. She carelessly exposed many people to the deadly virus and put lives at risk. One person that is very close to me have nerve cancer. She’s had it for years but has not told many people. She receives treatment but tells people as little as possible of what is going on. She is a strong woman and doesn’t want those who care about her to worry.

Ethical Dilemma

In the novel The Hot Zone ethical issues arise while on the trail to uncover the mysteries of Ebola. Monkeys are used as test subjects to figure out how the disease is spread and the conditions it leaves the animals in once it has killed them. Depending on which side someone is on they may have a different look on the matter. animal activists may state that these animals are taken from their homes only to die. Even the 'control' animals end up sick, as stated in The Hot Zone by a researcher named Nancy Jaxx "The control monkeys had not been infected with Ebola..." but soon those monkeys would contract elbola and die. The animals lives were used so we could find out that Ebola can travel through the air to find a new host. On the other hand, the lives of these animals are not wasted. the few things discovered while researching them could've saved many lives of humans.The monkeys themselves are genetically close to humans and many things that effect them have the same effect on us. Finding out just one way the disease is spread can save many lives of friends and family.