Zaire

Novogratz mentions that before she left Africa, she went for an adventure on the tallest mountain which lay between in the Goma, a city in Rwanda, and Zaire. Novogratz and her Canadian friend (Charles) and their tour guide climbed Mount Nyiragongo. The mountain was one of central Africa’ tallest mountain, it shared border with Rwanda and Zaire. While they climbing and hardly surviving the grueling trails of the mount, only to realize that Novogratz had come to Africa similarly unprepared,…

from medical school was finishing his training to become a clinical microbiologist during the first Ebola outbreak.(BBC News) In 1976 Dr.Piot was working in a lab in Belgium where he received two plastic vials that contained blood from a patient in Zaire. He received notice that more than two hundred people are 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,…

The Hot Zone is a nonfiction novel written by Richard Preston; a book about “the terrifying true story of the origins of the Ebola virus” as the cover states. The novel is written in the perspective of the author, Richard Preston, as he interviews, medical staff, researchers and family members of the victims. The reader learns about the first of many known outbreaks of the virus, different strains of the virus, similar viruses and much more. The book is broken into four parts, each filled with…

Ebola – a pathogen from our worst nightmares was once just the name of a river in northern Zaire, Africa. How did the name of a river give rise to a virus with such a horrifying connotation? The recent Ebola outbreak occurring in West Africa is on high alert across the world. The Ebola virus is lives in animals such as the fruit bat, but has the tendency to make the jump to humans. When this jump does occur, the virus is deadly and kills the majority of those infected. Because the virus is…

Zaire ebolavirus, or commonly known as Ebola, is the virus responsible behind the early 2014 outbreak in West Africa and got its name from the Ebola river, a tributary of the Congo river. The main cause of the virus in the first known outbreak in 1976 is still unknown, but it is believed to have been caused by the human handling of fruit bats and monkeys. Once the virus snakes its way through the host’s body it causes deadly fevers which eventually produce hemorrhaging throughout the body of the…

a strong bond. All the years I’ve worked at the recreational center I never questioned why he was there. This was my best friend and I never asked why he was here. So one night on our date, I asked him “so what made you volunteer at the center Zaire?” At first he looked away, he tried to change the subject but I continued to ask him. Finally, he took a deep breath and began “When I was a teen, I hung around the wrong kids. You know the type your mother told you to stay away from. We went to…

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 direct contact with body fluids or secretions of…

For years man has desired to eliminate proverty from this world and has speculated for generations on how to create a model society. Currently, there has been a substantial amount of scrutiny that has been given to Africa, with myraid advocates pushing for billions of intercontinental aid. Many econcomists are questioning how effective the aid is on relieving Africa from it’s penniless communties and underdeveloped framework. There’s astounding evidence that reveal that the foreign aid given to…

Belgian colonialism in the Congo Basin has often been cited as an extreme case of how a narrow minded focus in the extraction of resources by a colonial power can have dramatic negative consequences on local populations and result in a lack of infrastructure and stable governance. During the period of 1908 to 1960 Belgian powers sought to control the rich resources of the Congo Basin. Through widespread fear tactics and suppression of the local populace the Belgians enslaved locals to work…

Minister Lumumba and the chief of the army Joseph Mobutu, supported by the West. Lumumba was arrested on 17 January 1961 and executed, which led to temporary instability. Mobutu finally took power after a coup in 1965 and renamed the country Zaïre in 1971. Mobutu’s Zaïre, supported by the US and Belgium, was characterized by high corruption and repression, until the dictator had to flee the country in 1997 because of the Civil War, making the “free” DRC to be restored. We can thus say that the…