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Joshua Bays Mrs. Robinson Ebola 11 December 2014 Making Sense of the Ebola Virus: The Ebola virus struck the world infecting 6,263 and killing nearly 2,917 men, women, and children in five Western African countries. The Ebola virus has a very high risk of death. The virus causes fever, muscle aches, sore throat, headaches, vomitting, diarrhea, a body rash, and unexplained bleeding from internal organs. Signs of the virus may appear between 2 to 21 days of actually retrieving the…

had privately gotten the results only moments later. The test came back positive. Fear had risen in my throat and panic bubbled in my mind. This was not a good thing to happen at all and I dreaded telling anyone else. Patient 0 had indeed contained Ebola. I made calls and proceeded to tell others of our facility. We had to investigate Patient 0 even more to try and find where they had gotten it. If it was of somewhere else we must warn them. If they got it here, in Texas, where was it? How many…

overwhelming and uncontrollable. It will also make you question yourself and believe if the sources are reliable. Well, remember when the disease EBOLA arise in West Africa, everyone in America was panicking because of how the news portray the disease. News reporters would exaggerate and made it seem like everyone in the world was going to catch Ebola. Ebola is a deadly disease caused by an infection. Its been a serious case during 2014 but the virus was founded in 1976. It all started in West…

Methods Would Effectively Prevent the Spread of Ebola?, that identified ways to stop the spread of the Ebola Virus. Every month there is a new, highly talked about topic of interest. These past few months, this topic was Ebola. It became one of the most talked about topics in Fall 2014 because it was brought to United States from Africa, where it has been an ongoing epidemic. Many citizens feared for their lives about what was to come. When talking about Ebola it is easy to persuade people how…

Ebola virus disease EVD or “Ebola” is a severe human and non-human primate disease caused by Ebola viruses. These viruses belongs to the family: Filoviridae, Genus: Ebolavirus, Species: Tai forest ebolavirus (TAFV), Reston ebolavirus (RESTV), Sudan ebolavirus (SUDV), Zaire ebolavirus (EBOV) and Bundibugy ebolavirus (BOBV) (Bukreyev et al., 2014). Zaire ebolavirus or simply Ebola virus (EBOV) is the most virulent of the genus and accounts for the highest numbers of outbreaks. The virus spreads by…

said epidemic is handled on a national level is extremely important. While America has dealt with a large variety of health care crisis effectively in the past, handling a health crisis in the most responsible manner requires multiple actions and an Ebola outbreak would test the country to the limits of its abilities. Another area of concern is the state of the health care system on a large scale, dealing with the…

The Hot Zone part 1 is about the Ebola Virus, a deadly virus that is highly contagious and kills 90% of people that contract it. There is no cure, and no vaccine for this deadly infectious virus. The only known source of the virus is Kitum Cave, on Mount Elgon in Africa, deep in the tall rain forest. The first known case is of Charles Monnet, a researcher living in Africa, he spreads it by getting on a plane and going to a hospital. There he infects a doctor named Dr. Musoke, who then gets a…

First encountered in African monkeys by biomedical scientists in 1967, the Ebola virus, part of the negative-stranded RNA viruses, known as filoviridae, according to the journal of infectious diseases, is the only known virus family in which scientists have profound ignorance . Specifically speaking, scientists are not aware of the tactics active in the nature of the virus’ agents, their pathogenesis, and virology . However, during the 2014 epidemic—which killed more than 9,600 people and caused…

Pardis Sabeti’s Work of Greatness The first time Ebola was announced as a disease, people were oblivious to the idea that it could kill a person. Nobody thought it was that scary in the beginning. To really find out if Ebola was life threatening, a team of highly trained scientists came in to answer this question. The head of this group was Pardis Sabeti, who is an assistant professor of evolutionary and organismic biology at Harvard University. Dr. Sabeti studies the evolution and effects of…

“Stalking a Killer” by David Quammen both explain Marburg’s severity, among the other filoviruses, and the proper precautions that occurs when handling this agent. “Stalking a Killer” is an article that touches on Marburg and the different types of Ebola; it tells short accounts of infected victims. The Hot Zone is a study about the frightening filoviruses that many struggle with. The Hot Zone by Richard Preston gives a riveting understanding of the virus by describing the hosts’ symptoms and…