Zaire

Americans consider Africa as a huge jungle or rainforest. When they think of Africa, they think of it as a place where people live in jungles along with wild animals, where no technology exists and alike. The truth is that only the Guinea cost and the Zaire River Basin are rainforests, which is a very small percentage when compared to the…

Spillover is not just a regular book about diseases. In this book, the author, David Quammen, dialogues about a multitude of zoonotic diseases, which are pathogens that can be transmitted from an animal into a human. There are eleven diseases that the author primarily discusses: Hendra, Ebola, Malaria, SARS, Q-fever, Psittacosis, Lyme disease, Herpes B, Nipah and HIV/AIDS. All of these are viruses, with the exceptions of Q-fever, Psittacosis and Lyme disease, which are bacterium. All zoonotic…

Ebola is a very sever virus that has the power to wipeout a population in the matters of days. Ebola was first discovered in zaire, Africa in 1976. This was a big deal because nobody knew what was happening and how to prevent it, even today we still don't have knowledge to do so. The matter was made worse when the viruses keep spreading because people had contact with the sick and they had no clue that was what was passing it around. This is supported by the fact the ebola has the ability to…

Some of the obstacles of surrounding vaccination in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) made eradication of smallpox in the country seem unlikely. These obstacles included a lack of infrastructure/travel, an uncooperative government, and an inability to conduct active surveillance on the amount of individuals vaccinate as well as an issue with detecting cases of smallpox. Many of these issues are akin to those faced by the effort to keep the DRC free of polio.1 In 2017 two confirmed cases…

Some factors that motivated European exploration in Africa were the explorers. Most of them came to Africa for cultural and scientific curiosity. Others wanted to come to the country for profit. The impact these factors were is that it lead to many things in the country being discovered. Mungo Park, British explorer, was attacked by African warriors and escaped death by jumping into a river after trying to negotiate a deal over Niger. Other Europeans discovered things that could benefit the…

regarding observable behavior and the products of that behavior, including the rules, groups, and institutions that shape people’s lives” (Eller 20). The Mbuti Pygmies are originally an ethnic group from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and Northern Zaire.…

“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…

Genocide is a problem in the world today. Genocide is a mass murder of one group of people to another group of people. The genocide in Rwanda was one of the worst causes in African history. There are several causes and a lot of people involved with brutal outcomes in Rwanda genocide. There are several causes leading to genocide in Rwanda. The genocide was sparked when the plane of the president of Rwanda Juvenal Habyarimana, a Hutu was shot down above the Kigali airport on April 6 1994. The…

Genocide-the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. The Rwandan Genocide is one of the worst times in history. It started in April of 1994 and ended that July. On April 6, 1994, a plane carrying Habyarimana and Burundi’s president Cyprien Ntaryamira was shot down over Kigali, leaving no survivors. (It has never been conclusively determined who the culprits were. Some have blamed Hutu extremists, while others blamed leaders of the…

Rwanda is a small landlocked country in East Africa, with a population of about 11 million, Rwanda was one of the last countries to be infiltrated by European contact. Rwanda has been showing signs of rapid economic development. Internationally many countries are concerned with Rwanda’s declining human rights. Rwanda is an amazing country that has been able to renew and rebuild its economy. There were three peoples in Rwanda Twa, Hutu, and Tutsi. The Twa preferred hunting and gathering and…