Viral marketing

How would you feel if the news was providing you information about a deadly disease but all the information was mixed up? It will feel very 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…

Classic Viral Case Study: Dove A brand that is no stranger to viral advertising is Dove beauty. Stemming from the consumer giant Unilever, they have managed to create several advertising campaigns that were well received with audiences and digitally based for maximum sharing. Dove advertisements usually tug at the heartstrings, and have a deep story within that encourages people to share, therefore taking the message from Dove onto a viral level. Part of Dove’s success is that as beauty and…

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…

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…

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…

The Ebola Virus is a serious illness and if it is not treated right away, it is very likely that you might die from it. The Ebola Virus first appeared in 1976 in the Dominican Republic and Sudan. The disease occurred in a village near the Ebola River, where the disease gets its name. The newest outbreak of this virus was in West Africa and the first cases of symptoms were recorded in March of 2014. The newest case of the virus is the most dangerous occurrence since the virus was discovered in…

“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…