Introduction
A pandemic disease is a pathogen which is an illness, in excess of normal levels which occurs all over the world. There are 2 types of common pathogens a bacteria or a virus. A bacterium is a living organism that can release poisonous toxins which can damage the hosts body it is on average 0.2 um (micrometers which are 1X10-6 m) (1. See bibliography). They can be killed by antibiotics and the 2 types of Wight blood cells (phagocytes and lymphocytes). A virus is not a living organism and can only reproduce using cells which kills the host cell. For this reason a virus Is far harder to kill .Anti-viral drugs are hard to manufacture but, white blood cells can kill them .On average they are a virus is 20-400 nanometers (1X10-9 m) …show more content…
It has killed approximately 11301 people out of 28602 cases which mean approximately 60% of all cases survived. the symptoms of the diseases are nausea and vomiting ,diarrhea ,reddening of eyes ,raised rashes ,chest an cough pain ,stomach pain , severe weightless and bleeding from eyes or other orifices causing bruising. Ebola is not an airborne disease and is only carried by water this may be a reason why it came under control so quickly and did not spread around the world although the virus can still be infectious even after a patient has died. It originated from infected fruit bats from the Petropodidae family and was carried by the liquids of infected animals e.g.: chimpanzees it is feared that it may re-emerge in a new mutated form which may be more contagious. The toxin formed was a protein called delta peptide it is supposed to change an infected cells permeability preventing other Ebola viruses from attacking infected cells this increases the efficiency of the infection and the rate it can spread. The response of the word to the Ebola epidemic was made by the world health organization UNICEF supported the training of social workers, a surveillance scheme has been set up for the next 2 years to search for the thwart a emergence of the deadly pathogen ,the deployment of over 4000 heath care workers by …show more content…
I will use a case study of the preparation of the UK government for the influenza virus. The first step was to start the development and testing of medical counter measures for example vaccines and antibiotics but this is inhibited by the private sectors ownership of medical facilities which have little or no incentive to create new antibiotics or increase the production of old ones if these obstacles where overcome though it would take over 6 months after an initial outbreak to create a vaccine or anti biotic to counter act it and this drug may then become obsolete due to random genetic mutation allowing pathogens to become immune to possible drugs. The next phase is to implement travel restrictions, social distancing and disease surveillance. While none of these could prevent the overall spread of disease it could reduce the spread of a disease buying time for more effective medical counter measures to be implemented and developed. the surveillance of possible epidemic diseases means that there is the necessary data , a description can also be made of how the possible pathogen is transmuted and an early warning can be issued to make the public aware of possible threats .The issue with the data collected is that due to law it must be confidential which may be problematic if data is needed to be released quickly this could lead to the anonymity of the patient being
A pandemic disease is a pathogen which is an illness, in excess of normal levels which occurs all over the world. There are 2 types of common pathogens a bacteria or a virus. A bacterium is a living organism that can release poisonous toxins which can damage the hosts body it is on average 0.2 um (micrometers which are 1X10-6 m) (1. See bibliography). They can be killed by antibiotics and the 2 types of Wight blood cells (phagocytes and lymphocytes). A virus is not a living organism and can only reproduce using cells which kills the host cell. For this reason a virus Is far harder to kill .Anti-viral drugs are hard to manufacture but, white blood cells can kill them .On average they are a virus is 20-400 nanometers (1X10-9 m) …show more content…
It has killed approximately 11301 people out of 28602 cases which mean approximately 60% of all cases survived. the symptoms of the diseases are nausea and vomiting ,diarrhea ,reddening of eyes ,raised rashes ,chest an cough pain ,stomach pain , severe weightless and bleeding from eyes or other orifices causing bruising. Ebola is not an airborne disease and is only carried by water this may be a reason why it came under control so quickly and did not spread around the world although the virus can still be infectious even after a patient has died. It originated from infected fruit bats from the Petropodidae family and was carried by the liquids of infected animals e.g.: chimpanzees it is feared that it may re-emerge in a new mutated form which may be more contagious. The toxin formed was a protein called delta peptide it is supposed to change an infected cells permeability preventing other Ebola viruses from attacking infected cells this increases the efficiency of the infection and the rate it can spread. The response of the word to the Ebola epidemic was made by the world health organization UNICEF supported the training of social workers, a surveillance scheme has been set up for the next 2 years to search for the thwart a emergence of the deadly pathogen ,the deployment of over 4000 heath care workers by …show more content…
I will use a case study of the preparation of the UK government for the influenza virus. The first step was to start the development and testing of medical counter measures for example vaccines and antibiotics but this is inhibited by the private sectors ownership of medical facilities which have little or no incentive to create new antibiotics or increase the production of old ones if these obstacles where overcome though it would take over 6 months after an initial outbreak to create a vaccine or anti biotic to counter act it and this drug may then become obsolete due to random genetic mutation allowing pathogens to become immune to possible drugs. The next phase is to implement travel restrictions, social distancing and disease surveillance. While none of these could prevent the overall spread of disease it could reduce the spread of a disease buying time for more effective medical counter measures to be implemented and developed. the surveillance of possible epidemic diseases means that there is the necessary data , a description can also be made of how the possible pathogen is transmuted and an early warning can be issued to make the public aware of possible threats .The issue with the data collected is that due to law it must be confidential which may be problematic if data is needed to be released quickly this could lead to the anonymity of the patient being