Viral hemorrhagic fever

You began to experience a sore throat, fever, some headache and then muscle pain its similar to having a flu. But than you lead up to getting a rash, diarrhea, vomiting and slowly your liver will start to die out on you slowing until you bleed inside and outside. This disease is very high risky…

Ebola: a word that for many triggers a somewhat distant memory back to 2014 when the whole world was up in arms about it spreading and becoming a pandemic. This incident of outbreak in West Africa shows how far we have come as a world, technologically and medically, but also how far we still have to go. The severity of the outbreak was completely avoidable, however due to the disregard of certain factors not usually associated with disease, such as cultural practices, it became an epidemic. In…

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…

Analyzing Frontline: Ebola Outbreak In the 2014 Frontline documentary of the Ebola outbreak, awareness of the devastation and severity of the Ebola virus are brought to the surface. The disease has ravaged the country of Sierra Leone and surrounding territories like Guinea. Community helpers, volunteers, and organizations such as Doctors without Borders have come together to help those in need of aid. Unfortunately, the efforts of the doctors and helpers seem futile because the rate of…

In Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, the Ebola virus was quickly widespread. Some countries banned flights from those infected areas for the safety of their own population. Although flight bans seem to be an easy solution to the problem, they can lead to negative outcomes. Flight bans could negatively affect societies because the virus would be less contained, researchers would have trouble working, and economies would ultimately change. Since there is no known cure for the virus, people have…

least four Ebola drugs were being tested during early development of Ebola but all of them were ineffective. The first safety trial on an Ebola drug began in January 2014 for TKM- Ebola. This contains parts of RNA that target three genes essential to viral replication. This helped patients a bit but did not fully cure the virus. ZMapp is a cocktail of three antibodies that binds to Ebola, neutralizes it and alerts the immune system to the infection. This seemed like it would work but was not…

have symptoms of the virus when we left West Africa, but then demonstrated symptoms five days later. Americans and of course all health care workers need to be aware of how this virus is transmitted and the symptoms. Some symptoms of the virus are fever, headache, sore throat, weaknesses, stomach pain, joint and muscle pain, and lack of appetite. As the virus gets stronger in your body, the virus causes bleeding internally and other various places like your eyes, ears, and nose. Others will…

“Ebola Virus Disease is a hemorrhagic fever, rare and deadly disease caused by infection with the Ebola virus”, (Nursingworld, 2015), The virus was first discovered in 1976 near the Ebola river in Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly known as Zaire). The outbreak of EVD occurred across Africa which researcher believed that bats are the likely reservoir of the virus. “Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea in West Africa have experienced the largest Ebola epidemic in history” (Nursingworld 2015)…

Does ebola affect our food production? Well, first lets talk about ebola. Ebola is a hemorrhagic virus disease also known as (EVD) , EVD is a severe, often fatal disease that appeared in 1976 in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and in Nzara, Sudan. Then, later occurred in a village near the ebola river - from which ebola got its name. The disease has no true statement of how it appeared. Some believe that it comes from monkeys, bats,or even bushmeat. The World Health Organization have cited…

Ebola is a virus that is very deadly. Four out of five strains can make people sick. While inside of the body it is possible to do the following things: kills cells, full bleeding internally, wrecks the immune system, and harms every organ in the body. It is very infrequent to catch Ebola. The only way that people can get infected with the disease is from direct contact with fluids from those who are already infested with Ebola. Ebola was first recognized in 1976. “The name came from a river…