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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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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Exercise 1: Human Behavior and The 1995 Ebola Outbreak In Zaire 1. In different cultures‚ people have different traditions. Most of which seem pretty harmless‚ unless a virus is introduced amongst the population. In the film‚ the Ebola virus was spread unintentional in 3 main ways: handshaking‚ burial rituals‚ and selling and eating infected animal meat. When people greet each other in Zaire‚ a handshake is usually the method that is used. However with the Ebola outbreak‚ handshaking spread the virus
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America’s Greatest Fear The Ebola virus was discovered in the late 1970s by the international community as the causative agent of major outbreaks of hemorrhagic fever in Africa’s Sudan and Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Sudan (Vasilyevich IV‚ et al. 2005). Immediately‚ the International scientific teams moved in to deal with these highly virulent epidemics where their findings revealed that the transmission had exponentially ceased; however‚ the team could not reconstruct a considerable
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2014 Michael Raneses ETHICAL DILEMMA EBOLA VIRUS Ebola virus appeared in Sudan‚ Zaire in 1976. The very first outbreak of the Ebola virus was named Sudan Ebola virus and it infected over 284 people‚ killing 53% of its victims. Another strain of the infection came infecting 318 people; this strain was called the Zaire Ebola virus. It had the highest mortality rate of 88%‚ and at this time the researchers were not able to pin point where the Ebola virus had originated from. The third subtype
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Ebola By: Fahd Seddiki and Conrad Womelsdorf Discovery of Ebola The discovery of Ebola was made after an epidemic of this virus was spread throughout Sub-Sahara Africa. The actual discovery was made by a native by the name of DR. Ngoy Mushola. He discovered it in 1976 after the epidemic hit his country. The first case of Ebola was called Ebola Zaire. It was discovered in Zaire hence the name. The second discovery of Ebola was called Ebola Sudan; also it was discovered in Sudan. Although
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Ebola the Virus Picture‚ for one moment‚ numerous bloody bodies lying scattered and moaning in agony in blood-soaked beds as the life is slowly and painfully drawn from them as if they were soldiers that had just returned from one of the deadliest wars in history‚ bruised‚ battered and broken by their enemy. But they had fought no war‚ and had never laid eyes on their enemy‚ for the very thing that was destroying them was living and replicating at an enormous rate‚ right inside their own bodies
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Council QUESTION OF: Containing the Ebola virus in West Africa‚ treating its victims and taking measures to prevent its recurrence. MAIN SUBMITTER: Human Right Council‚ Realizing the importance of international collaboration on solving to contain the outbreak of the Ebola affected countries‚ especially in West Africa Acknowledges all the effort all nations has made to eliminate Ebola cases Noting with concerns the negative effects of the spread of Ebola to Western Africa 1. Recommends NGOs
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about the origins and incidents involving viral hemorrhagic fevers‚ particularly Ebola viruses and Marburg viruses. This book is based upon an outbreak of the Ebola virus in a monkey house located in the Washington‚ D.C. suburb of Reston‚ Virginia. The author weaves together the tales of several previous outbreaks in Africa to describe clearly the potential damage such an outbreak could cause. The first appearance of an Ebola-like virus takes place in Kenya and costs the life of a French emigrant named
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