massive hemorrhages and clotting. This was a deadly disease which could be caught by the person who has it by as easily as it seeping through an open wound. Marburg is a filovirus which can be comprised with two types of viruses called Ebola Zaire and Ebola Sudan. Ebola Zaire is the worst out of the three‚ killing nine out of ten humans who have it. An incident occurred in Reston‚ Virginia where monkeys were being transported from the Philippines to a monkey house. Some of the monkeys started to drop
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somehow made it through. The samples of blood containing the Marburg the virus were given to the many laboratories around the world for future reasons‚ to help I.D. and make other researches on it. 1983- September 25-26 Ebola was named after the Ebola river.The first know emergence of Ebola Zaire‚ the hottest type of the virus strain‚ was on September 1976. It erupted and had spread to 55 villages near the river. It killed 9 out of 10 people and one of the hunters of it was Eugene Johnson. No one knew
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An American freelance cameraman working for NBC News in Liberia has tested positive for Ebola and will be flown back to the U.S. for treatment. The freelancer‚ Ashoka Mukpo‚ 33‚ was hired Tuesday to be a second cameraman for NBC News Chief Medical Editor and Correspondent Dr. Nancy Snyderman. Snyderman is with three other NBC News employees on assignment in Monrovia‚ reporting on the Ebola outbreak. Mukpo came down with symptoms on Wednesday‚ feeling tired and achy. As part of a routine temperature
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pandemics such as Ebola Virus Disease in Singapore’s aviation industry‚ actions that can be taken to resolve the issues‚ the detailed steps on how to implement these measures and lastly‚ a personal opinion on whether the aviation companies or organisation in Singapore are ready to tackle the issues caused by pandemics. a. Risks and impacts Risks of Pandemics The occurrence of a pandemic is unpredictable‚ no one knows where or when will it happen. For example‚ a pandemic such as the Ebola Virus Disease
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Summary Richard Preston’s Hot Zone is a horrific narration of the origin of filoviruses and their encounter with humans. These viruses include Marburg virus (MARV)‚ Ebola virus (EBOV) and Sudan virus (SUDV). They are also known as Biosafety Level 4 agents because they are extremely dangerous to humans and have no treatments or cure. Section 1: The Shadow of Mount Elgon This section details Charles Monet’s visit to Kitum cave‚ which is located in Mount Elgon‚ Kenya. During this trip‚ Monet
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powerful and dangerous‚ so dangerous that it can sometimes cause irreplaceable damage‚ but can also do good things. The Hot Zone shows that Ebola can spread worldwide and have devastating effects. Preston states that if Ebola manages to spread beyond central Africa‚ then it will be all over the world‚ from New York to Paris‚ but “we never knew it.”(99) If Ebola spreads worldwide‚ there would be a global epidemic. However‚ it did not‚ and very few people knew its dangers. Also‚ the World Health Organization
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could be. Many people could be affected in New York alone Ebola could have a global impact. The plane becomes a host it is carrying the virus in a sense. Example two: Both species‚ the human and the monkey‚ were in the presence of another life form‚ which was older and more powerful the either of them‚ and was a dweller in blood. (Pg 57) Richard Preston is use of the word older makes creates uncertainty. No one knows how long the Ebola virus has been. The "life form" (viruses are neither dead or
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This is an Essay on the book The Hot Zone by Richard Preston. Ebola is a hot virus‚ meaning it is very dangerous‚ and lethally hot. It gets into your body in numerous different ways‚ therefore making it extremely hard to fight against. The diseased virus gets into your body and immediately starts eating all of your tissue. This results in body functions ceasing to work. Your liver shuts down completely‚ leaving toxic wastes floating around in your blood stream. Your blood starts losing
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getting information‚ however‚ others state that some of the information you can access is not suitable‚ especially for children. What is your opinion? In our contemporary society it is absolutely impossible to imagine our life without using the internet. The number of people who find the internet a convenient tool helping them in studying or working is increasing steadily‚ so is the number of those who believe the internet to be harmful and overestimated as the best source of information. To
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Nancy Jaax had been promoted to the Level 4* Biosafety containment area at USAMRIID.* She is assigned to research Ebola virus*. When she was cooking at home‚ she cut her right hand. Later‚ at work‚ she didn’t check her suit close enough. She was dissecting an EBOV-infected monkey‚ and one of the gloves on the hand with the open wound rips‚ and she is almost exposed to contaminated Ebola blood. The readers later find that Nancy was not infected. Peter Cardinal‚ a ten-year-old‚ visits Kitum Cave.
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