Summary of Richard Preston's The Demon In The Freezer

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 In the early 1970s, British photo retoucher Robert Stevens moved to south Florida to work for the National Enquirer. He was known for his excellent work, but he also tended to get the Enquirer sued. On September 27, 1975, Stevens and his wife drove to Charlotte, North Carolina, to visit their daughter. He began having convulsions five hours later.
#2 On October 5, Stevens went into a coma, and he was diagnosed with inhalation anthrax. His doctors made a telephone call to the Federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and spoke with Dr. Sherif Zaki, the chief of infectious diseases pathology.
#3 The examiners were polite and helpful, but they did not make eye contact, and they were afraid. They laid Stevens’s body out on a gurney, and Dr. Flannagan began the autopsy.
#4 The autopsy revealed that the spores had gotten into Stevens’s lungs through the air. When they finished, the pathologists gathered up their tools and placed some of them inside the body cavity. They destroyed the prosection tools, because they were contaminated with anthrax.

Sujets

• Biochemistry
• Life science

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 13 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669353294
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Richard Preston's The Demon in the Freezer
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4 Insights from Chapter 5 Insights from Chapter 6 Insights from Chapter 7 Insights from Chapter 8
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

In the early 1970s, British photo retoucher Robert Stevens moved to south Florida to work for the National Enquirer. He was known for his excellent work, but he also tended to get the Enquirer sued. On September 27, 1975, Stevens and his wife drove to Charlotte, North Carolina, to visit their daughter. He began having convulsions five hours later.

#2

On October 5, Stevens went into a coma, and he was diagnosed with inhalation anthrax. His doctors made a telephone call to the Federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and spoke with Dr. Sherif Zaki, the chief of infectious diseases pathology.

#3

The examiners were polite and helpful, but they did not make eye contact, and they were afraid. They laid Stevens’s body out on a gurney, and Dr. Flannagan began the autopsy.

#4

The autopsy revealed that the spores had gotten into Stevens’s lungs through the air. When they finished, the pathologists gathered up their tools and placed some of them inside the body cavity. They destroyed the prosection tools, because they were contaminated with anthrax.

#5

The CDC investigation team led by Dr. Bradley Perkins had arrived in Boca Raton and began tracing Stevens’s movements over the previous few weeks. They believed that it would have to be a single point in the environment, because anthrax does not spread from person to person.

#6

The FBI’s Hazardous Materials Response Unit is stationed in two buildings at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia. When there is a serious or credible threat of bioterrorism, an HMRU team is dispatched to assess the hazard, collect potentially dangerous evidence, and transport it to a laboratory for analysis.

#7

The HMRU agents drove past the parade ground and parked in a lot that faces the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, or USAMRIID, the principal biodefense laboratory in the United States.

#8

The main building of USAMRIID is a dun-colored, two-story monolith that looks like a warehouse. It has virtually no windows, and tubular chimneys sprout from its roof. The building is surrounded by concrete barriers to prevent a truck bomb from cracking open a Biosafety Level 4 suite and releasing a hot agent into the air.

#9

The FBI sent the powder to a lab to be tested, and it tested positive for anthrax. It had the appearance of a biological weapon. Oh, my God, Ezzell said aloud.

#10

On the day after the anthrax letter was opened, Peter Jahrling, the senior scientist at USAMRIID, was woken up by his pager. He was called into the commander's office. The White House had become involved with the sample.

#11

At the FBI headquarters in Washington, the bureau’s emergency operations center, known as the SIOC, was up and running. The FBI had initiated around-the-clock SIOC operations on September 11th, and now a number of desks at the center had been devoted to the anthrax attacks.

#12

On September 25, Eitzen called the national-security people and the FBI what John Ezzell was learning about the anthrax.

#13

Around the corner from Jahrling’s office is a room known as the Secure Room, which is always locked. Inside it there is a stew phone, a secure fax machine, and several safes with combination locks. Inside the safes are sheets of paper in folders.

#14

Tom Geisbert was the electron microscopist who was called in to look at the powder from the anthrax letter. He was worried that it could be laced with pox, and he wanted to look for Ebola-virus particles.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

Peter Los, a man I will call Peter, was a former apprentice electrician who had been living in a commune in the city of Bochum. In August 1969, he set off for Asia on an Orientreise with six other members of the commune. They drove the bus down through Yugoslavia to Istanbul, crossed Turkey, and went through Iraq and Iran. They camped out under the stars or stayed in the cheapest places.

#2