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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• In the book‚ we have Nancy and Jerry‚ and they are very important characters who deal with Ebola. Also they are married. In the movie‚ Sam and his ex-wife shares similar rolls like Nancy and Jerry. They try to stop the outbreak of Ebola virus in the monkey house. In the movie Sam and his ex-wife is divorced and still have problems between them. • movie changed ’Ebola’ to an Ebola-like virus called Motaba‚ the conditions of both diseases proved to be similar • The army took strong precautions
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Pre AP Biology STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS for “The Hot Zone” by Richard Preston You may write on these sheets but if you are concerned about the legibility of your handwriting type up each question followed by your answers/reading notes. Note: Please work independently. This is one of my main request for the year. You will learn more if you do your own work. Reading Section I: PART I: “THE SHADOW OF MOUNT ELGON” Something in the Forest 1. Describe the life of Charles Monet. What were his “hobbies”
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Within Richard Preston’s‚ The Hot Zone‚ the very real threats posed by the deadly viruses of Marburg and Ebola Reston is brought to attention through the “terrifying true story”. In the first chapter‚ Charles Monet is introduced as a man with a little too much free time and works at the pump house at the sugar factory within near the base of Mt. Elgon. One day in 1980‚ he takes a female friend to Kitum Cave‚ and it is believed that this is the day he caught the Marburg virus. The first symptoms include
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EBOLA WHO? The Ebola virus causes an acute‚ serious illness which is often fatal if untreated. Ebola virus disease (EVD) first appeared in 1976 in 2 simultaneous outbreaks‚ one in Nzara‚ Sudan‚ and the other in Yambuku‚ Democratic Republic of Congo. The latter occurred in a village near the Ebola River‚ from which the disease takes its name. The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) that is concerned with international public health. It was established
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Virus Outbreaks Everyone is always fearful when they hear about an infectious virus outbreak. For example‚ the Bubonic Plague and Ebola‚ created a frantic scare all around the world. The author‚ Richard Preston‚ depicts and describes the many different filovirus outbreaks that were exposed‚ taking over the human race throughout the entire book. The novel illustrates how the virus outbreaks had its outbursts‚ rapidly demolishing and destroying the human population gradually as there is no known cure
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2. The rabies virus is in the family Rhabdoviridae in the Mononegavirale order of viruses. The rabies virus is usually bullet-shaped and is made of a long single-stranded spiral chain of RNA. The virus envelope is made of matrix protein and is studded with glycoproteins. 3. People usually contract rabies after they are bitten by an animal that has been infected with the rabies virus‚ though it has been shown that in rare cases rabies can infect people who just touch infected animals. The virus
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have been as high as 28%.[12] In immunocompromised patients (e.g. people with AIDS) the fatality rate is approximately 30%.[13] Cause[edit] Measles Measles virus electron micrograph Virus classification Group: Group V ((-)ssRNA) Order: Mononegavirales Family: Paramyxoviridae Subfamily: Paramyxovirinae Genus:
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How is the disease transmitted? 5. What is the course of treatment for this illness? 6. How is a person affected by the disease? 1. Rabies 2. Rhabdovirus. An RNA virus that belongs to the order Mononegavirales‚ viruses with a nonsegmented‚ negative-stranded RNA genome. Has a distinct “bullet” shape. 3. All warm blooded hosts (species of mammals)‚ including humans‚ and is almost always fatal. 4. Transmission of rabies virus usually begins
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Cholera‚ aka Asiatic Cholera or epidemic cholera‚ is an infectious disease of the gastrointestinal tract caused by the Vibrio cholerae bacterium. From the family Vibrionaceae‚ the bacterium is characterized as a gram-negative rod. As with other gram-negative rods‚ Vibrio cholerae produces an endotoxin‚ known as cholera toxin. This bacterium is mobile due to the presence of a single polar flagellum and is highly infectious. The Vibrio cholerae bacterium grows in both freshwater and marine habitats
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