Nancy jaax character analysis

The hot zone cast
Nancy jaax dvm
Jerry jaax

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Dr. Nancy Jaax - DVM 1973

Annual Conference for Veterinarians 2003

Dr. Jaax is currently the Special Projects Officer in the Office of Sponsored Research Programs at Kansas State University. During her previous military service career, she played a vital role in the military's veterinary pathology, diagnostic and research programs, managing multidisciplinary research programs in large biomedical laboratories; directing post graduate training programs for veterinarians in pathology and performing pathogenesis research with high hazard viral agents (primarily Ebola and Marburg virus), bacterial, biologic toxin and chemical agents. During this time she gained critical experience in laboratory animal pathology and research in the two highest levels of laboratory containment for infectious agents, BSL3 and BSL4 environments. During an appointment as consultant to the Army Surgeon General, she was the Department of Defense's principal expert in the pathology of high hazard hemorrahagic fevers, with particular expertise in the Marburg and Ebola viruses. She is a recognized internat

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The Hot Zone (American TV series)

American TV medical drama series (2019, 2021)

For the 2011 Canadian medical drama originally known as "The Hot Zone", see Combat Hospital.

The Hot Zone is an American anthology medical drama television series, based on the 1994 non-fiction book of the same name by Richard Preston and airing on National Geographic.

The first season, consisting of six episodes, aired from May 27 to 29, 2019, and was intended as a miniseries. Largely set in 1989,^{[clarification needed]} it follows U.S. Army scientist Nancy Jaax who is confronted with the possibility of a potentially deadly outbreak of Ebola. Jaax, a veterinary pathologist, first identifies the ebolavirus after it appears in monkeys in a Primate Quarantine Facility in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. The season was positively reviewed, and renewed for a second season.^[1]

The second season, titled The Hot Zone: Anthrax, focuses on the 2001 anthrax attacks, a week after September 11.^[2] The season, also consisting of six episodes, aired from November 28 to 30,

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Interview with Colonel Nancy Jaax, D.V.M., PhD

Colonel Nancy Jaax and her husband, Colonel Gerald Jaax

What motivated you to work with Ebola?

Ebola had just emerged for the second time the year before I came to USAMRIID as a resident in Veterinary Pathology in 1979. It was truly a "mystery virus" at the time, and we knew virtually nothing about it--at that time we didn't even have the tools to classify it accurately. The opportunity to work with such a unique virus was irresistible to me. I also had contracted Hepatitis C from an emergency blood transfusion, (at the time, there was no test for this disease, and it was called "non-A-nonB hepatitis). Whenever I got immunized for a BSL 3 agent, I would experience liver enzyme elevations, so I volunteered to work in a BSL4 lab, where those vaccinations were not a requirement.

Had you known what you know now about Ebola, would you still have been involved with it at the same level?

Yes. From a pathology point of view, it's a fascinating virus.

What do you think future research on Ebola should look at?

I think it