Zaire

Africa. “She was wrapped in a rough bark cloth and wore no shoes.” These are the cloths the people in Resthaven wore as African tradition. People in Africa actually do wear clothes made from bark. “The best known regions for bark cloth production are Zaire, Uganda, Rwanda, and Malawi.” Farmer was correct of the tradition of bark clothing in Africa. Modern day culture in Africa always suspects everyone as witches, as they also do in Resthaven. In Resthaven, the spirit mediums are always on the…

Congo is one of many states what allows other country to push them around. At the beginning of the late 1800’s, Congo would start to go through many changes such as development, modernization, colonization and so on. Not only were European countries making their way into Congo, their own leaders made their small powered economy either a little better or much worse. With these changes happening for the next century, it caused numerous short term and long term effects on this Third World country.…

could be found. Ebola tends to just go away for years at a time, which is what makes it a difficult virus to track. On down the road, there would become five species of ebolavirus: Zaire virus, Sudan virus, Reston virus, Taï Forest virus, and Bundibugyo virus. Bundibugyo virus emerged in 2007 and a reservoir host still has not been found. Gorillas have been found to have antibodies, but hat doesn’t mean they are the reservoirs. Malaria was first believed to no be zoonotic because “the four…

There were several major causes for the collapse of the Soviet Union. After Soviet leaders extended their navy and support for rebel movements; the United States restated an anti-Soviet posture in 1981, when Ronald Regan threatened the Soviet regime with intensive military spending. After 1985 a new Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, tried to save communism by introducing reforms. Gorbachev’s attempts to salvage communism failed and in 1989 after communism was replaced with solidarity the Berlin…

civilians with the agent sprayed from building roofs and modified delivery vans. In June 1993, Aum released anthrax spores from a Tokyo building; the foul smelling spores killed some pets and birds, but no citizens. Aum even sent young scientists to Zaire in 1993 to study and collect samples of the dreaded Ebola virus. Aum even sttempted to attack American military bases with sprayed botulin. All the while, Aum scientists cultured and experimented with biological agents such as botulin, anthrax,…

Surviving progress dives into the grey that we ought to pay more attention to and probes us into contemplation about the term “progress” and its utility. Isn’t progress good? If it is good, are we making the right progress? And if we are to progress, what are we to survive? The documentary takes a dystopian approach toward answering its posed question though it does not fill in the void for what is missed. What is clearly driven and understood from the documentary is that we fool ourselves to…

in England for three years then moved back to France. When Voltaire was exiled to England he was a mere poet but he ¨came back out a philosopher¨ René henry Pomeau. When he came back to France he wrote one of his most famous plays that was called Zaire. Voltaire may have written may books plays and poems but he still got his point across, which was that the state and the church needed to be…

that the country had the ability to be self-sufficient “In 1960, the country was able to feed itself. Mobutu’s economic policies ignored areas of the country that had no mineral resources, thus by the mid-1970s, about 60 percent of the deaths in Zaire were blamed on malnutrition.”(Watson) Do to the lack of self-management and sufficiency is what to blame for problems in congo today. In conclusion, till now the Congolese people are trifling to the government but they seem to have found a…

thousands of primates (human and nonhuman) in Africa. EBOV effectively evades all human measures to produce a safe and viable therapeutic treatment or medication to treat Ebola virus disease. In fact, numerous strains have been discovered, with the Zaire…

ever seen since its discovery in 1976. This essay aims to talk about what the EVD is, the current epidemic and the risk for people around the world. Ebolavirus is named after the Ebola River in Zaire (now The Democratic Republic of Congo) in 1976. The first outbreak of EVD infected over 300 people in Zaire and Sudan and had a mortality rate of 54% (Stanford University). The natural host for Ebola has never been confirmed though it has recently been suggested that fruit bats, a common choice of…