Charles Monet was a quiet 56 year old Frenchman who lived by himself in a little wooden bungalow on an Nzoia sugar factory in Kenya. The factory in which Charles worked followed the Nzoia River that stretched along the base of Mount Elgon, an extinct volcano. Charles was an amateur naturalist who in his spare time liked to observe the different birds of Africa and take hikes to the top of Mount Elgon. Charles was a very unsocial man, with few friends. He never spoke of any family and his only close friends were some women who lived in towns around the mountain, but even they knew practically nothing about him or his past. Charles Monet died of a very rare virus, Marburg. Marburg is a form of the very deadly level 4 virus, Ebola. Doctors who have studied his case believe that he contracted this virus from the Kitum Cave on one of his hikes to Mount Elgon. The virus slowly disintegrated Charles's internal organs killing him before he was dead. Charles ended up bleeding out in a hospital bed in Kenya, while doctors could do nothing. Marburg and all its forms is a lethal meat eating virus without a cure. Charles had no chance of survival.