2014 Ebola Epidemic in Guinea and the United States Amy Riddell Kaplan University HS311 Unit:1 Assignment Professor Daniel Gilmore November 16, 2015 Ebola, previously known as Ebola hemorrhagic fever, is an exceptional and fatal disease caused by an infection with one of the Ebola virus strands that claimed an estimated 2,482 lives in Guinea, Africa alone in 2014 (Johnston, 2015). It made its first recorded appearance in 1976 near the Ebola River, which is now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The symptoms, similar to the well-known flu, consists of fever, severe headache, body aches, loss of physical strength, lethargy, diarrhea, vomiting, stomach pain, and unexplained hemorrhaging. These symptoms can appear anywhere from…
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10 days later he miraculously recovers. Later on, a group of researchers go to Mount Elgon, to search Kitum Cave for any sign of the virus, but strangely none of the test animals had any trace of the virus. One difference I found about the recent outbreaks and the outbreaks in the 70’s was that the contamination rate. In the 70’s the virus had a relatively infected a well amount of people but in 2014, the World Health Organization reported what they called a “rapidly evolving outbreak” of Ebola in West Africa, where 49…
Ebola virus ailment is a one frightening infectious disorder syndromes . The sickness is one of it type. The nonfiction e book the hot region with the aid of Richard Preston and the film in 1995 Outbreak, was patterned after Ebola virus , are similarly terrifying. simply imagine victims bleeding thru their ears, eyes, nostril and, via autopsy, a few pathologist findings organs necrotic. Ebola always reason intense contamination .…
When the CDC is involved with something major you know its serious and not a game, but for this instance this type of Ebola wasn’t harmful to humans. Overall this book gives us knowledge of Ebola and what to look out for and what is being done to stop it from spreading and…
People would leave them to die because the disease was contagious. I seriously doubt that it was ebola because ebola wasn’t established in till late 2000’s. But it could have been, I don’t know for sure cause it didn’t tell us what it was it just explained what happened. In the story it didn’t give enough information to tell if it was talking…
A quick peak on the CDC website in the ‘about’ section showed me that the first documented case of ebola occurred in 1976. While Ebola can result in death, it is also extremely rare, therefore, you frequent West Africa and its neighboring countries often the risk of contracting Ebola is highly unlikely (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), after the first case was reported in the United States anyone with a cough or high fever believed they contracted the…
The Ebola outbreak that began in 2014 was one of the deadliest and fast-moving epidemics the world has seen. Outbreaks mainly began in West Africa and quickly spread worldwide, affecting well over tens of thousands of people. It was not long before much of the world became familiar with the disease through personal connections or hearing about it from the extensive news coverage. Richard Preston, an American author, is very familiar with infectious diseases, and dives into all aspects of Eebola, including explaining its origins, its deadly symptoms, and how it spread in his book The Hot Zone. He has mastered the knowledge of infectious diseases through his extensive research.…
Before the Ebola outbreak in Liberian society, Liberia had no public health infrastructure or any role in the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare and lacked medical doctors and trained professionals. Most of their health organizations come from foreign aid, such as the Médecins Sans Frontiéres who had malaria projects in Liberia during the first outbreaks of Ebola in late 2013. With the global concern of Ebola spreading beyond West Africa the World Health Organization began to send more aid to Liberia. Additionally, the United States aided $76.3 million to Liberia and 3,000 personnel to build and staff portable hospitals. Together with the aid of the Center of Disease Control, the World Health Organization, and the United States in October 2014, the cases of Ebola in Liberia began to decline and by May 2015, it was declared Ebola-free.…
“Ebola was first discovered in 1976 near the Ebola River in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo” stated by United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This virus lately terrified many people around the global about getting contain. The Ebola virus cause the patient to have fever, chest pain, and in some case you bleed through your skin. The first system usually appear around five days after contamination systems appear of sore throat, fever, and tired feeling. The transmission of this disease is through bodily fluids like blood, feces, and mucus.…
History has a tendency of repeating itself from the forms of leadership to tactics of war to the plagues that kill many. Ebola originated in West Africa in the 21st century more than five hundred years after the Black Plague. The Black Plague occurred in Europe during the middle ages and left a great impact on society. Although Ebola never reached the mass scale of the Black Plague it still had a traumatic impact on societies. Ebola and the Black Plague differ in the environment of the societies prior to contact, the symptoms, and impacts on societies; yet, are similar in the initial spread of infection, public reactions, and the rate at which they spread.…
Ebola is the most dangerous disease since HIV. According to the report by Richard Preston, an author who writes about infectious disease, the epidemic began on “December 6, 2013, in the village of Meliandou, in Guinea, in West Africa, with the death of a two-year-old boy who was suffering from diarrhea and a fever” (Preston). Since then, the outbreaks have been staggering. The virus is contracted through contact with blood and other bodily fluids. As the virus becomes more of an epidemic, health care workers traveled to West Africa to fight the deadly disease.…
ECONOMIC IMPACT: Guinea is among the poorest countries in West Africa, with a population of 12 million and per capita income of US$460. It was the first country to be affected by the Ebola virus. The country has metals such as iron ore and bauxite and political stability after years of conflict and poor leadership. Its economy is a mix of agriculture, services, and mining. The income growth in Guinea has not been too high, and the poverty rate is high at over 55 percent of the population.…
Should America Ban Traveling to Ebola Infected Countries? The Ebola virus was first discovered in 1976 and originated from West African countries. Ebola is a very deadly and contagious disease to come in contact with. This disease has always been able to stay contained in the small villages it is located in.…
Introduction The movie ‘Outbreak’ came out in cinemas in 1995 shortly after the discovery of the Ebola HF virus in the late 1970s. This movie dramatizes the Ebola HF virus and portrays it as the fictional Motaba virus, it shows in a dramatic Hollywood way how the US would react to a deadly disease outbreak. Of course, being a Hollywood movie there are some facts and many fallacies in the finer, more scientific aspects of the disease. The biosecurity facilities used to control the spread of the disease are not accurately portrayed and the evolution of the disease is ridiculous and very inaccurate. Scientific Information Viruses In and Out of the Movie…