Ebola

A time of crisis usually indicates that the situation possesses some form of danger. With the issue of danger lurking overhead, the people involved tend to react in two different ways: shy away from it all, or gather courage to make the best of the situation. In the Hot Zone, written by Richard Preston, many situations arise that can be considered times of crisis, and each time, one or more people show the courage needed to solve the problem. However, out of the numerous people in the book, Nancy Jaax deserves to be commended for her efforts. Like a baseball player batting to win the game in the ninth inning, she rises to the challenge on many different occasions concerning an outbreak of Ebola, proving that a woman’s place now may very well be in an ominous level 4 hot zone.
When most people picture workers dealing with a life-threatening virus like Ebola, a married woman with two children doesn’t come to mind. The job just doesn’t seem to be one in which a woman woul...