All 28 Uses of
Nairobi
in
The Hot Zone
- The doctors thought he should go to Nairobi Hospital, which is the best private hospital in East Africa.
p. 16..1 *Nairobi = capital and largest city of Kenya
- He had money; he understood he had to get to Nairobi.†
p. 16..3
- Nairobi ….†
p. 21..7
- Nairobi taxi drivers like to chat with their fares, and this one probably asks if he is sick.†
p. 21..7
- The taxi pulls out onto the Uhuru Highway and heads into Nairobi.†
p. 21..9
- It goes through grassland studded with honey-acacia trees, and it goes past factories, and then it comes to a rotary and enters the bustling street life of Nairobi.†
p. 22..1
- The taxi turns left onto the Ngong Road and goes past a city park and up a hill, past lines of tall blue-gum trees, and it turns up a narrow road and goes past a guard gate and enters the grounds of Nairobi Hospital.†
p. 22..3
- Nurses and aides came running, pushing a gurney along with them, and they lifted Charles Monet onto the gurney and wheeled him into the intensive care unit at Nairobi Hospital.†
p. 25..2
- When I visited Nairobi, years later, no one remembered where the grave was.†
p. 29..0
- Unable to diagnose himself, in severe pain, and unable to continue with his work, he presented himself to Dr. Antonia Bagshawe, a physician at Nairobi Hospital.†
p. 30..5
- He was opened up in the main operating theater at Nairobi Hospital by a team of surgeons headed by Dr. Imre Lofler.†
p. 30..9
- David Silverstein lives in Nairobi, but he owns a house near Washington, D.C. One day in the summer recently, when he was visiting the United States to tend to some business, I met him in a coffee shop in a shopping mall not far from his home.†
p. 33..0
- He has the largest private medical practice in East Africa, and it has made him a famous figure in Nairobi.†
p. 33..8
- Markham, the author of West with the Night, a memoir of her years as an aviator in East Africa, used to hang out at the Nairobi Aero Club, where she had a reputation for being a slam-bang, two-fisted drinker.†
p. 34..3
- One night, at two o'clock in the morning, Silverstein's telephone rang at his home in Nairobi.†
p. 34..7
- When he learned what Marburg virus does to human beings, Dr. David Silverstein persuaded the Kenyan health authorities to shut down Nairobi Hospital.†
p. 45..8
- Today he is one of the leading physicians at Nairobi Hospital, where he practices as a member of David Silverstein's group.†
p. 46..9
- 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
- He had died a day or so earlier at Nairobi Hospital with a combination of extreme symptoms that suggested an unidentified Level 4 virus.†
p. 132..3
- She was a student at a private school in Nairobi.†
p. 134..1
- She insisted that he be taken to Nairobi for treatment.†
p. 134..6
- The Flying Doctors, an air-ambulance service, picked him up, and he was flown to Nairobi and rushed to Nairobi Hospital, where he came under the care of Dr. David Silverstein, who had also taken care of Dr. Musoke after Charles Monet had spewed the black vomit into Musoke's eyes.†
p. 134..7
- The Flying Doctors, an air-ambulance service, picked him up, and he was flown to Nairobi and rushed to Nairobi Hospital, where he came under the care of Dr. David Silverstein, who had also taken care of Dr. Musoke after Charles Monet had spewed the black vomit into Musoke's eyes.†
p. 134..7
- He telephoned a friend and colleague in Kenya named Dr. Peter Tukei, who was a scientist at the Kenya Medical Research Institute in Nairobi.†
p. 139..9
- A few weeks later, I flew to Nairobi, and I talked with David Silverstein, the kid's doctor.†
p. 141..6
- Half a year after Peter Cardinal died, in the spring of 1988, Gene showed up in Nairobi with twenty shipping crates full of biohazard gear and scientific equipment.†
p. 144..1
- The road to Mount Elgon heads northwest from Nairobi into the Kenya highlands, climbing through green hills that bump against African skies.†
p. 375..1
- Nairobi Hospital.†
p. 381..7
Definition:
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(Nairobi) the capital and largest city of Kenya; a center for tourist safaris