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- Monet came into the country in the summer of 1979, around the time that the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, which causes AIDS, made a final breakout from the rain forests of central Africa and began its long burn through the human race.†
p. 4.6rain forests = dense, rainy forests with many species
- As the sun came up, the mountain turned silvery green, the color of the Mount Elgon rain forest, and as the day progressed clouds appeared and hid the mountain from view.†
p. 6.5rain forest = dense, rainy forest with many species
- They approached the frayed outer edge of the Mount Elgon rain forest, passing by fingers and islands of trees, and they passed the Mount Elgon Lodge, an English inn built in the earlier part of the century, now falling into disrepair, its walls cracked and its paint peeling off in the sun and rain.†
p. 7.6
- The mountain is a biological island of rain forest in the center of Africa, an isolated world rising above dry plains, fifty miles across, blanketed with trees, bamboo, and alpine moor.†
p. 7.9
- The stream gurgled out of the rain forest, and it was a strange color, milky with volcanic dust.†
p. 9.2
- On the plains, it is easy for elephants to find salt in hardpans and dry water holes, but in the rain forest salt is a precious thing.†
p. 11.3
- The cave is a petrified rain forest.†
p. 12.2
- They were trunks of rain-forest trees turned to stone—teaks, podo trees, evergreens.†
p. 12.3 *
- An eruption of Mount Elgon about seven million years ago had buried the rain forest in ash, and the logs had been transformed into opal and chert.†
p. 12.4
- Monet and his friend wandered through the cave, shining their lights on the petrified rain forest.†
p. 12.6
- A hot virus from the rain forest lives within a twenty-four-hour plane flight from every city on earth.†
p. 16.4
- What had happened at Nairobi Hospital was an isolated emergence, a microbreak of a rain-forest virus with unknown potential to start an explosive chain of lethal transmission in the human race.†
p. 47.5
- The Ebola River empties tracts of rain forest, winding past scattered villages.†
p. 62.3
- In its own evolution through unknown hosts and hidden pathways in the rain forest, Ebola seems to have developed the worst elements of all the above viruses.†
p. 65.7
- They are large, wild animals from the rain forest.†
p. 80.7
- On July 6, 1976, five hundred miles northwest of Mount Elgon, in southern Sudan, near the fingered edge of the central-African rain forest, a man who is known to Ebola hunters as Yu.†
p. 95.2
- As you head south, toward Zaire, the land rises and forms hills, and the forest begins to spread away from the rivers and thickens into a closed canopy, and you enter the rain forest.†
p. 96.1
- Two months after the start of the Sudan emergence—the time was now early September 1976—an even more lethal filovirus emerged five hundred miles to the west, in a district of northern Zaire called Bumba Zone, an area of tropical rain forest populated by scattered villages and drained by the Ebola River.†
p. 100.8
- Whatever the original host of the virus, it seems that a blood-to-blood contact in the rain forest enabled the virus to move into the human world.†
p. 101.4
- In 1976, at the time of the Zaire outbreak, the branch was being run by a doctor named Karl M. Johnson, a virus hunter whose home terrain had been the rain forests of Central and South America.†
p. 115.1rain forests = dense, rainy forests with many species
- They sat on the leopard-skin seats and stared out the windows at endless tracts of rain forest and brown river, a featureless blanket broken by the occasional gleam of an oxbow lake or a cluster of round huts strung like beads on a barely visible road or footpath.†
p. 123.1rain forest = dense, rainy forest with many species
- The monkeys themselves came from coastal rain forests on the island of Mindanao.†
p. 160.4rain forests = dense, rainy forests with many species
- They have a competitive relationship with people who live in the rain forest.†
p. 161.4rain forest = dense, rainy forest with many species
- In some parts of the world, these monkeys are called kras, because of the sound they make, and many people who live in Asian rain forests consider them to be obnoxious pests.†
p. 161.8rain forests = dense, rainy forests with many species
- Jahrling had worked at the Institute for most of his career, after an early period in which he had lived in Central America and hunted for viruses in the rain forest (he had discovered several previously unknown strains).†
p. 174.1rain forest = dense, rainy forest with many species
- He performed research on defenses against hot viruses—vaccines, drug treatments—and he did basic medical research on rain-forest viruses.†
p. 174.4
- It was an aerial view of rain forest.†
p. 194.9
- On his travels in rain forests and tropical savannas, he ate with pleasure whatever the locals were eating.†
p. 202.3rain forests = dense, rainy forests with many species
- Another hot strain from the rain forest.†
p. 225.6rain forest = dense, rainy forest with many species
- The strain of Ebola virus that had erupted near Washington went into hiding somewhere in the rain forest.†
p. 357.1
- Hazleton began buying more monkeys from the Philippines, from the same monkey house near Manila, and restocked the building with crab-eating monkeys that had been trapped in the rain forests of Mindanao.†
p. 357.5rain forests = dense, rainy forests with many species
- There have been rumors that wealthy people in the Philippines who own private estates in the rain forest have been importing African animals illegally, releasing them into the Philippine jungle, and hunting them.†
p. 371.6rain forest = dense, rainy forest with many species
- The road to Mount Elgon is a segment of the AIDS highway, the Kinshasa Highway, the road that cuts Africa in half, along which the AIDS virus traveled during its breakout from somewhere in the African rain forest to every place on earth.†
p. 376.1
- This was not lowland rain forest, where the crowns of trees merge into a closed canopy, but an African montane rain forest, a par ticular kind of forest with a broken canopy, penetrated by holes and clearings.†
p. 390.9
- This was not lowland rain forest, where the crowns of trees merge into a closed canopy, but an African montane rain forest, a par ticular kind of forest with a broken canopy, penetrated by holes and clearings.†
p. 390.9
- As the eye moved from the lowlands to the uplands, the farms gave way to patches of shrubby trees, to fingers and clumps of larger trees, and then to an unbroken blanket of primeval East African rain forest, one of the rarest and most endangered tropical forests on the planet.†
p. 391.4
- It is embedded with stone logs, the remains of a tropical rain forest that was swept up in the eruption and buried in ash and mud.†
p. 399.9
- The emergence of AIDS, Ebola, and any number of other rain-forest agents appears to be a natural consequence of the ruin of the tropical biosphere.†
p. 405.9
- Many of them come from the tattered edges of tropical rain forest, or they come from tropical savanna that is being settled rapidly by people.†
p. 406.1
- The tropical rain forests are the deep reservoirs of life on the planet, containing most of the world's plant and animal species.†
p. 406.2rain forests = dense, rainy forests with many species
- The rain forests are also its largest reservoirs of viruses, since all living things carry viruses.†
p. 406.2
- The rain forest has its own defenses.†
p. 407.3rain forest = dense, rainy forest with many species
- I find it extremely interesting to consider the idea that the chimpanzee is an endangered rain-forest animal and then to contemplate the idea that a virus that moved from chimps into us is suddenly not endangered at all.†
p. 408.4
- You could say that rain-forest viruses are extremely good at looking after their own interests.†
p. 408.5
- AIDS is the revenge of the rain forest.†
p. 409.3
- It was like looking into a rain forest.†
p. 411.5
Definitions:
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(1)
(rainforest) a dense forest with heavy rainfall and high biodiversity -- usually found in warm tropical regionsRainforests have layered growth (forest floor, understory, canopy, and emergent trees) and support an enormous variety of plants, insects, birds, and mammals. They help regulate climate by storing carbon and cycling water through evaporation and rainfall.
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)