Ebola: Overview of the Disease: Ebola, formerly known as Ebola haemorrhagic fever, is an uncommon but often deadly disease. This disease was first discovered when two outbreaks happened simultaneously in 1976 with cases in Sudan and The Democratic Republic of Congo. (1, 2015) It can affect non-human primates and also humans. Evidence suggests that fruit bats (Pteropodidae) may have been the Ebola virus source. (2, 2015) To date, there have been over 28,000 cases and over 11,000 deaths. (1, 2015)
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“Ministry of Health”. Guinea medical response was alerted to a disease characterized by fever, severe diarrhea, vomiting and a high fatality rate. The disease was spread from small town of Guinea to West Africa, which resulted in major outbreak in African continent. The outbreak is caused by genus Ebola virus, with cases fatality rate of 30 to 90 percent. Ebola virus is an aggressive pathogen that causes hemorrhagic fever syndrome in human and non-human primates. The virus originally has been identified
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Pick a story of local, national, or international importance from the front page of any newspaper. Identify your source and give the date the article appeared. Then use your sense of humor, sense of outrage, sense of justice--or just plain good sense--to explain why the story engages your attention. (500 words or less) Doctor in New York City Is Sick With Ebola, OCT. 23, 2014 (New York Times) “Craig Spencer is selfish,” said one girl when talking about ebola. Two years ago the outbreak of ebola
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of the five Ebola species. It can be transmitted through blood or bodily fluids, objects (like needles and syringes) that have been contaminated with the virus, infected fruit bats or primates. Symptoms of a person infected with the virus include fever, severe headache, fatigue, muscle pain, weakness, diarrhea, vomiting, abdominal pain and unexplained bleeding or bruising. Symptoms may appear anywhere form 2 to 21 days after exposure to the virus, and a person is
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JONATHAN AGYEMANG HUNTER COLLEGE 11/11/14 AMERICANS ARE TERRIFIED OF EBOLA. WHICH COULD MAKE IT HARDER TO STOP EBOLA ? The title of this article is Americans are terrified of Ebola. Which could make it harder to stop Ebola, the author of the article is Paul Waldman, the date of article October 14,2014 , the source is The Washington Post . Ebola is now the most scary epidemic that has put fear in people. The existence of Ebola
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virus however does have a vaccine that is available to people during the flu season. I urge everyone who works at a hospital, school, daycare or healthcare facility to get the flu vaccine. Ebola is a deadly virus also known as Ebola hemorrhagic fever. Ebola is usually found in
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virus is known as Reston-Ebola and was identified in1989 when it infected monkeys that were being imported to Reston, Virginia from Philippines. The virus also has infected some of the patients, but the patients did not develop the Ebola hemorrhagic fever. The fourth subtype had occurred during 1994 when an ethnologist was during a necropsy on a dead chimpanzee. The ethnologist accidentally infected herself while she was performing the necropsy on the chimpanzee. Ebola has become more prevalent
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Name: Hesham Abdolmoniem ID: 53093 Research Proposal WRI 102 Statement of the problem “A problem might be defined as the issue that exists in the literature, theory, or practice that leads to a need for the study” (Creswell, 1994, p. 50) A problem statement should be presented within a context, and that context should be provided and briefly explained, including a discussion of the conceptual or theoretical framework in which it is embedded. Clearly and succinctly identify and explain the
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Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever Some of the most deadly killers can’t even be seen with the human eye. These microscopic predators are known as viruses. In my report, I will explain about one of the most deadly killing viruses, the Ebola virus. Ebola was named after the Ebola River in Zaire, which in 1976 is where the virus had first developed. The first outbreak infected over 284 people. Just a few months later there was a second outbreak from Yambuku, Zaire, which infected about 318 people. Ebola’s natural
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How to Stop the Spread of Ebola? Ebola virus disease (EVD; also Ebola hemorrhagic fever, or EHF), or simply Ebola, is a disease of humans and other primates caused by ebolaviruses. The Ebola virus causes an acute, serious illness which is often fatal if untreated. Ebola virus disease (EVD) first appeared in 1976 in 2 simultaneous outbreaks, one in Nzara, Sudan, and the other in Yambuku, Democratic Republic of Congo. The latter occurred in a village near the Ebola River, from which the disease
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