Viral hemorrhagic fever Essays

The Historical Epidemic The Marburg Virus has been accounted as one of the deadliest viruses on Earth due to its ability to cause high fever and bleeding throughout the body leading to shock and eventually death (Harding, 2014). The epidemic occurred in the late 1960’s when a small group of lab workers from Germany had an outbreak of hemorrhagic fever. The first people who were exposed to the seemed to have some type of contact with green monkeys that were imported from Africa (CDC, 2014). There

The Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever is easily one of the most frightening diseases to greet the medical world and to this day still poses a heavy threat to those at risk of exposure. There have been several cases of epidemic outbreaks that alarmed not only the plagued areas, but also the anthropological world. This virus has become one of the most publicized viruses since the AIDS frenzy, and was adapted by Hollywood into a film starring Dustin Hoffman called Outbreak. It even inspired exploratory novels

Ebola is a virus was discovered in Yambuku, Sudan in 1976 by Dr. Peter Piot. It is a very harmful disease causing mass causualities. People have to take a lot of precautions to make sure that it doesn’t spread, so people don’t die. Most of my family lives in Cameroon, Africa. Although Cameroon was not affected, Africa is the continent that has had countries with Ebola outbreaks. Knowledge of Ebola, how it developed, its causes, treatment, and knowing the science behind this disease can lead

works its way into your body through the respiratory system. From there, it binds to the cells in your lungs and releases its genetic information into the nucleus of the cell. After its information is in the nucleus, it controls the cell and produces viral material which aids the virus in its attack. The flu vaccine is only partially effective due to the fact that Influenza mutates and changes itself every year. This way the vaccine must change with it and can only aid partially. Hantavirus is a little

tubular shape (Martines et al., 2014). Each virion contains an envelope, capsid, and matrix, and uses negative-sense RNA to encode their genome (Martines et al., 2014). Ebolavirus and Marburgvirus are two types of viral hemorrhagic filoviruses, meaning they affect their hosts by causing fevers and internal and external bleeding (Stock, 2014). Marburgvirus obtained its name from the town of Marburg, Germany, where the first cases of Marburgvirus were documented in 1967 (Martines et al., 2014). In that

The article I chose to review is “Ebola hemorrhagic fever outbreaks: strategies for effective epidemic management, containment and control”, written by Gerard Matua, Dirk Van der Wal, and Rozzano Locsin. The main point of the article is to discuss the current strategies being used to control Ebola epidemics and provide recommendations for new methods that may improve containment times. The article distinguishes between “reactive” approaches, and “pre-emptive” strategies, reactive approaches being

Briefly describe how phage were discovered, and how they were quickly used to treat disease. a. Phage were discovered by Felix D'Herelle when he found a motive to search of a "good microbe hunter" after seeing 20 people dead in 8 days due to the yellow fever. He originally discovered phage by chance. While working with sick locusts, he observed a puzzling phenomenon: amid some of his bacterial cultures, there were what he described as "taches vierges" - pure or clear spots on an otherwise cloudy background

By Stephen Sykes Poe’s story about the red death is not the same thing as the modern-day disease, Ebola. The red death is a fictional story while Ebola is a real disease killing people. Ebola kills A lot of people in Africa. People do not like to try to help them so do but if you help them u can get ebola if u help them. The ebola have got to the u.s.a now people want to help them now so they don’t get it. There have ben 2 people in the u.s but they have live. There are some treatment that have got

Writer and best-selling author, Richard Preston, in his non-fiction thriller, The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story, tells about the origins and incidents involving major filoviruses, such as Ebola and Marburg. Preston highlights multiple cases of the people who dealt and came with close contact to the viruses, from the possible contraction of Marburg by Monet, to Nurse Mayinga’s case of Ebola Zaire, to the biohazard operation at the Ebola-infested monkey house in Reston. Through this, he influences

Africa’s known for their cultural heritage, beautiful wildlife, and unfortunately, Ebola. The first outbreak occurred in 1976, in Zaire, Africa. The deadliest Ebola outbreak occurred, October 2014 in Western Africa. The crisis captured the attention of people nationwide. Ebola is a highly fatal disease that has severely affected Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. The virus is causing thousands of people to become infected: According to the World Health Organization, There has been 14,646 confirmed

alike that scientists believe the Black Death was Ebola or an ancestor of it. Some symptoms of Ebola are headaches/ body aches, fevers, vomiting/ diarrhea, and blood blisters develop under your skin. How Ebola kills you is it makes your immune system attack you’re own organs and your blood vessels burst so you bleed to death. Some symptoms of the Black Death are flu like fevers, vomiting, pus filled blisters form on your neck, air pit, and groan areas, and purple and black blotches appear on your skin

In recent times, the major headlines around the globe have been about the killer virus known as Ebola. This strain has been titled by many as “the deadliest” known to hit mankind. According to the World Health Organization, Ebola is severe and deadly with a fatality rate of 90%. Nations across the globe need to first make it their mission to treat and quarantine individuals affected by this deadly virus, then find vaccines to prevent future occurrences, before it is too late. As a group of young

along with these differences the two also are similar in many ways. Firstly, the symptoms for the Plague and Ebola are heavily similar. Symptoms for the Plague included fever, chills, headaches, shock, difficulty breathing, muscle aches, vomiting and bleeding for the mouth or nose. Symptoms for Ebola in the early stages include fever, severe headache, joint and muscle aches and weakness. Overtime, the Ebola patient also develops symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, red eyes, raised rash, cough

Parth Shetty 10/27/14 Period 2 Ebola Informative Essay Ebola became America’s biggest threat in only 7 days. Was this really were the Ebola outbreak started? No, this is

Ebola the Unknown Reaper Research Writing Kai Northington Culbertson School Author’s Note This paper was written for the Research Writing class..  Introduction Within the novel The Hot Zone the author Richard Preston writes about an outbreak that occurs in the 80’s. The outbreak was one of a virus called Ebola. Within the story Preston describes how Ebola could have easily be an outbreak that could have reach apocalyptic levels. Preston describes the levels of containment

People will make personal opinions within the first 5 seconds of seeing another person even if they does not know them. Sometimes people don't know that their making opinions. Sometimes those opinions are accurate, but most of the time they are not. In Arthur Miller's The Crucible this can be read first hand. In modern day society, people make accusations and opinions based on prior knowledge and experiences. The premise of The Crucible is people making opinions of others based on prior knowledge

The central idea of Richard Preston’s The Hot Zone is that the outbreaks of many deadly hot agents are due to the oversight of humans. Preston conveys his message through detailed descriptions of simple mistakes that characters make. One instance of human oversight that he wrote about was the usage of dirty needles in the hospitals of Sudan, leading to a massive outbreak of Ebola Sudan. The virus “hit the hospital like a bomb” and “transformed the hospital at Maridi into a morgue” all because “the

be mistaken with the flu. This can lead people to believe that they only have the flu when they have something much worse. Another issue with the symptoms is that “Ebola is detected in the blood only after an onset of symptoms; the main sign was a fever, which accompanied the rise in circulating virus within the patient’s body. It usually took a couple of days for the virus levels to rise to be detected in the body (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2015)” ("Care Of An Ebola Patient, Part

Edgar Allan Poe did not write about Ebola in his story "The Masque of the Red Death." He is not in the correct time period to know about the dreaded illness. There were no disease studies to be able to tell what the red death actually was. Finally, no one knew it was contracted, or where it was contracted from. Poe was not referencing Ebola. Here is why. First of all, Poe wrote "The Masque of the Red Death" in 1842. Ebola was discovered in 1976. That is 134 years apart. Another type of time is the

CAUTION! The Ebola virus is out and looking for new people to attack. The only way to get this deadly virus is through close contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person. There has only been three confirmed cases of Ebola in the United States. Since the outbreak of Ebola have not been as big as it has in other countries we should not have extreme measures. Therefore, caution should be taken when implying within reason quarantines and travel bands. “Quarantine is an extreme measure taken