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Colonel Clarence James Peters (C. J.)
A civilian virologist at USAMRIID, Jahrling is one of the first at the Institute to realize that the monkeys at the Reston Primate Quarantine Unit are infected with Ebola. He is an expert on monkey viruses, and specializes in virus defense. Before the Reston incident, Jahrling has scrupulously avoiding Marburg and Ebola because of how deadly they are. Along with Thomas Geisbert, Jahrling puts his life at great risk by unknowingly sniffing a vial that contains Ebola virus, despite his reputation as a careful man. After this exposure, he works tirelessly to study the strain and to decontaminate the monkey house, and he does not become ill.
Peter Jahrling Quotes in The Hot Zone
The The Hot Zone quotes below are all either spoken by Peter Jahrling or refer to Peter Jahrling. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Part 2, Chapter 2
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[Peter Jahrling] had held in his gloved hands virtually every hot agent known, except for Ebola and Marburg. When people asked him why he didn’t work with those viruses, he replied, “I don’t particularly feel like dying.”
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A freezer can be as hot as hell. When a place is biologically hot, no sensors, no alarms, no instruments can tell the story. All instruments are silent and register nothing.
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Peter Jahrling Quotes in The Hot Zone
The The Hot Zone quotes below are all either spoken by Peter Jahrling or refer to Peter Jahrling. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Part 2, Chapter 2
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[Peter Jahrling] had held in his gloved hands virtually every hot agent known, except for Ebola and Marburg. When people asked him why he didn’t work with those viruses, he replied, “I don’t particularly feel like dying.”
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A freezer can be as hot as hell. When a place is biologically hot, no sensors, no alarms, no instruments can tell the story. All instruments are silent and register nothing.
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