Ebola Week 2 Assignment 1) Infectious Agent a) Describe the Ebola virus‚ including what type of virus it is (family‚ DNA or RNA‚ envelope or not) and how many genes it has. The Ebola virus is a highly infectious disease that has killed many worldwide. The virus is part of the Filoviridae family that is a highly infectious agent (Garcia et al.‚ 2012). The Flioviridae family of viruses causes symptoms such as: fever‚ bleeding‚ and hypotensive shock to the host in which it enters (Garcia et al.
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million. Ebola was not nearly as bad therefore‚ Ebola in modern Africa was a better disease to have than the Black Plague in the Middle Ages. This is because Ebola was not as deadly as the Plague‚ Ebola wasn’t around as long as the Plague‚
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Is Ebola Only Deadly To The Poorest? In the year 1976‚ starting in Sudan‚ Ebola climbed out of its unknown hiding place‚ and caused a plethora of lives being taken away‚ 340 people devastatingly died. Fear gripped the victims’ faces‚ and uncertainty tortured their minds. The people of Zaire waited outside clinics‚ churches and in their homes for a treatment of the horrible disease‚ but there was no cure. They were forced to watch people die‚ hoping that they would be saved from the violent death
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Against Fraternities/Sororities As portrayed in the 1978 hit movie Animal House‚ college fraternities/sororities are a hotbed of excessive drinking‚ casual sex‚ vandalism‚ and generally licentious behavior. But‚ in real life‚ unlike the movie‚ the results of such conduct are hardly laughable. Even though the nationwide membership in both fraternities and sororities are at an all time high of 350‚000 members‚ fraternities and sororities are still receiving harsh criticism from university
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ultimately kills its human host. So far‚ there is no cure for AIDS‚ and most unfortunately the numbers of deaths from AIDS only continues to grow. However‚ another virus has gained much public and national attention. That virus is called Ebola. It is thought that Ebola ’s effect on humans is restricted to Zaire‚ Africa. Viruses that kill people in large masses is a major threat to mankind; the only hopes of destroying the viruses is dependent upon technology. AIDS is a deadly disease
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Ebola in Sub-Sahara Africa Source: http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxgsy8RUj31r98we1o1_500.jpg History of Ebola • Ebola is a virus‚ also called Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever • Named after a river in the Democractic Republic of the Congo‚ formerly known as Zaire‚ in Africa‚ where it was first recognized in 1976. • It belongs to a family of RNA viruses called Filoviridae • Four identified subtypes in Africa: Zaire‚ Sudan‚ Ivory Coast and Bundibugyo‚ each named after the region in which they occurred
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The Filoviridae family of viruses is where the Ebola virus belongs. The virus is distinguished by long filamentous structure which can present as straight‚ branched‚ and circular or a folded strand with a uniform diameter of approximately 80 nm but can be many different lengths. Liver cells‚ neutrophils‚ endothelial cells and macrophages are specifically targeted by the virus. Large quantities of cytokines are created by infected cells which solicits a large response from the immune system and interrupts
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The #1 New York Times Bestseller‚ The Hot Zone‚ written by Richard Preston works with its main goal of educating society on the disturbing topic of the Ebola virus. It attempts and adequately completes its goal to reveal the terrifying truth of the origins of this deadly virus to the whole of society. It is due to the fact that the Ebola Virus is both highly deadly as well as an infectious disease that it comes as no surprise that it is classified as an exotic “hot” virus. While the book takes place
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twothirds of americans are concerned about the ebola outbreak‚ reacting to the situation such as in the article it states how “parents in mississippi pulled their children out of a middle school ….’ finding out that the principle had traveled to zambia but he did not show any symptoms . New york governor Andrew Cuomo said that it should be considered that people shouldn’t travel and ban people from travelling to west africa. It is believed that Ebola isn’t a great threat to the united states because theres been only a
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RESPONSE ARTICLE: IN THE RACE AGAINST TIME‚ MEMBER STATES MUST INCREASE EFFORTS TO STOP EBOLA OUTBREAK In 1976‚ the Ebola virus (named after the Ebola River in Zaire) first emerged in Sudan and Zaire with the first outbreak of Ebola (Ebola-Sudan) infected over 284 people. The disease has a high risk of death‚ killing between 25 percent and 90 percent of those infected with the virus. In March 2014 a major Ebola outbreak in Guinea‚ a western African nation was reported‚ the disease then rapidly spread
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