Index case - Mr. Yu G.
Mr. Yu. G. was a storekeeper in Nzara at a cotton factory. The area we worked in in the factory was where the bats roost. He was the first case to be infected with Ebola Sudan, along with him was two co-workers. He never went to a hospital to get treated, either because he didn’t know he had Ebola or he died too quickly. He died within 72 hours of being infected.
The map above is showing the location of Western Kenya. This is where Charles Monet observes animals, worked, and lived.
Peter Cardinal, a young Dutch boy who came down with a strain of Marburg after visiting Kitum Cave. When Peter Cardinal died, his blood was sent to Eugene Johnson, a civilian researcher at USAMRIID. Eugene Johnson requests permission to visit Kitum Cave. Johnson and his team treat the cave like a Level 4 hot zone, taking monkeys and guinea pigs to see if they will contract the disease. They also take tens of thousands of biting bugs, to see if Ebola and Marburg are contracted through the bugs. Ebola was not found anywhere in Kitum Cave.
Charles Monet
He was a Frenchman, amature naturalist, and worked in a sugar factory in Western Kenya along the Nzoia River. He went to Africa when HIV broke out in 1979. At the sugar factory he took care of the water pumping machinery. On his free time he liked to explore and observe animals on the weekends. Monet had a houseworker, Johnnie, who cleaned up, made his meals and suddenly came down with the Marburg Virus. Johnnie died in Nairobi Hospital in the intensive care unit.
Monkeys
They were brought from the Philippines and straight to the Reston Monkey Center. They were located in Room F. The monkeys were rapidly dying, and whatever was killing them spread from Room F to Room H. Peter Jahrling, an Army civilian virologist, decided to conduct the tests himself. The Marburg did not glow in the monkey cells; Ebola-Sudan made them glow a little, and Ebola-Zaire lit them up like light bulbs. The Reston monkeys had Ebola-Zaire.
Charles Monet
He was a Frenchman, amature naturalist, and worked in a sugar factory in Western Kenya along the Nzoia River. He went to Africa when HIV broke out in 1979. At the sugar factory he took care of the water pumping machinery. On his free time he liked to explore and observe animals on the weekends. Monet had a houseworker, Johnnie, who cleaned up, made his meals and suddenly came down with the Marburg Virus. Johnnie died in Nairobi Hospital in the intensive care unit.
Monkeys
They were brought from the Philippines and straight to the Reston Monkey Center. They were located in Room F. The monkeys were rapidly dying, and whatever was killing them spread from Room F to Room H. Peter Jahrling, an Army civilian virologist, decided to conduct the tests himself. The Marburg did not glow in the monkey cells; Ebola-Sudan made them glow a little, and Ebola-Zaire lit them up like light bulbs. The Reston monkeys had Ebola-Zaire.