Lassa fever

guidelines. Biosafety cabinets, or BSC’s, were introduced into laboratories and the instances of exposure went down to only two cases between 1948 and 1952. Much was the same for other pathogens. With the introduction of vaccines for diseases such as Q Fever and Franciscella tularensis, the instances of infection decreased even more (“Chapter 2”). With the continuing improvement of guidelines, rates of laboratory induced infections has decreased drastically, as evident in the following…

infectious disease that is Ebola, it has been a challenge to implement infection control and prevention measures in the affected areas. On March 14, 2014, there were reports in HealthMap, a French news website, of eight deaths with a strange fever that resemble Lassa fever in Macenta, Guinea. On March 22, the WHO and the Sierra Leone Ministry of Health informed the communities that EVD had spread into Sierra Leone. This type of digital surveillance is known as syndromic surveillance and helps…

Medicine has always been a part of my life as I was born into a family where my grand parents were traditional healers who used natural herbs to heal people of their ailments. At an early age, I realized that I had more questions than answers about why people fall ill and can be treated using herbs. These questions ignited my interest to understand how humans benefitted from health care and subsequently provided my path to being admitted into Ambrose Alli University , Ekpoma in Nigeria to study…

becoming severely ill with this mysterious illness. Dr.Piot's team of resourceful microbiologist who assisted in the lab in Belgium suspected everyone was breaking out with yellow fever, which the lab they were working in The Institute of Tropical Medicine they were more than qualified to handle an outbreak of yellow fever, but little do they know they have the Ebola virus lurking in the vials of blood. Not knowing what virus was being contained wearing only latex gloves not quarantine protocol…

When somebody thinks of Hawaii, they think about a marvelous getaway in an alluring oasis of comfort and relaxation. But, an abundance of people don’t realize that this sacred and indigenous land is being harmed by invasive plants and animals that could destroy Hawaii’s numerous native plants and damage the life cycle of native animals. This major problem evolved in 1793 when Captain Vancouver introduced cattle to Hawaii (Info Grafik “Introduction of Cattle”). This establishment led to the…

sack with bullets . His wife was then forced to eat the blood stained rice. In another incident a young Kashmiri Pandit boy was killed and his kidneys were extracted , his parents were then forced to chew on the kidneys. Prominent personality Lassa Koul , head of Doordarshan , Srinagar was shot dead in front of his house. Inspite of such barbarism and gross violation of human rights, nothing was done to ensure their safety. Frantic calls to departments in Jammu and Delhi also fell on deaf…