1. Do you agree with the author that nurses were portrayed as the villain during the Ebola crisis? I agree with Linda McGillis and Jordana Kashin in thinking that nurses were portrayed as villains spreading the Ebola virus to the public. I know I was guilty of this view point. I think the news media played a big role‚ because they did not present the full picture of how the Ebola precautionary guidelines varied among organizations. But I feel like Nina Pham was specifically praised for how she handled
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Ebola Virus- A Detailed Study Ebola Virus is the newest virus which has become epidemic in West Africa and it is being that it is spreading throughout the world as people coming from that region are becoming carriers of the virus. Going into the history if this virus‚ this virus was first detected in 1976‚ when it occurred simultaneously in the regions of Nzada‚ Sudan and Yambuku in Democratic Republic of Congo. It got its name from the Ebola River that flowed near the Yambuku village. As
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By Ebony Ebola: Worldwide Annihilation? A movie‚ Outbreak‚ came out some years back and it put the threat of the Ebola virus smack dab in my face. Never‚ at that time‚ had I heard of a real-life present-day killer virus. Of course I learned about the Black Plague that occurred centuries ago killing masses of people. But in my day‚ no. Nothing outside of the common cold. It was horrifying. But this movie was fiction‚ right? The truth that it was based on is what this essay will focus on. This
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Ebola virus is a member of the family Fivoviridae and is named after the Ebola River in the Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire) which is where the first epidemic occurred in 1994. The virus is classified as
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an update on where we are. As it has been explained repeatedly‚ but I want to reemphasize‚ Zika is not like Ebola. This is not a human-to-human transmission‚ with the one exception that we’ll talk about. It’s primarily transmitted through mosquitoes‚ a very particular type of mosquito. But what we do know is that if you contract Zika‚ even if you don’t appear to have significant symptoms‚ it is possible for Zika to cause significant birth defects‚ including microcephaly‚ where the skull casing
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Ebola? Where is it from and where is it now? Think‚ if I said that there is a virus that can kill every 9 out of 10 people‚ has been around for exactly 40 years‚ and has had two major outbreaks.Would it be true? This disease does exist‚ and it is very lethal. This epidemic is known by many names but mostly known as Ebola. What is Ebola? Ebola is a rare and deadly disease caused by an infection with one of the Ebola virus species. Discovered in 1976 named after the river from where the disease was
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If you have asthma its very difficult breathing through your airways. They become more even swollen and the muscles around the airways can tighten when something triggers your symptoms. Common asthma triggers are allergies‚ tobacco‚ medication‚ emotional anxiety and stress‚ viral and bacterial infections. Symptoms of asthma are coughing‚ shortness of breath‚ wheezing‚ and chest tightness. Asthma affects people very differently than people who don’t have asthma. When people breathe normally
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Ebola virus is back‚ this time in West Africa‚ with over 350 cases and a 69% case fatality ratio at the time of this writing (Baize). The culprit is the Zaire ebola virus species‚ the most lethal Ebola virus known‚ with case fatality ratios up to 90%. The epicenter and site of first introduction is the region of Guéckédou in Guinea ’s remote southeastern forest region‚ spilling over into various other regions of Guinea as well as to neighboring Liberia and Sierra Leone. News of this outbreak engenders
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may not show the symptoms at first for a while but with type 2 it can take up to years for any symptoms to happen. The early symptoms are almost alike as the type 1. For type 2 its problems with the bladder like going to the bathroom a lot to urinate. Feeling very hungry is another‚ getting really thirsty. A problem with the kidney is another symptom. All these are uncontrollable. Those are just the early symptoms‚ in type 2 there are also first symptoms which is blurry vision‚ some pain or numbing
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cystitis. Symptoms are: feeling the urge to urinate more‚ pain while urinating‚ and blood in the urine (hematuria). To treat a bladder infection: antibiotic will help for the bacteria‚ drinking lots of fluid and medication for the pain. Surgery is needed if kidney stones or tumor are cause for the bladder infection. Wilms tumor is a type of cancer that is located in one of the kidney or both of them. This type of kidney cancer mainly effects younger children below 5 years old. Symptoms can include
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