of several related viruses that form virions also known as filamentous infectious viral particles and encode their genome in a single stranded RNA. Filoviruses are the viruses responsible for causing viral hemorrhagic fevers. Symptoms of a viral hemorrhagic fever begin with fever and muscle aches. Four of these ebolavirus strains can cause the disease in humans and all five can cause disease in primates such as chimpanzees, gorillas, and monkeys (CDC, 2014). The strains have been named for the
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Tristan Morrow Mr.Winger English 7 10/23/14 Ebola There are many threats to America. One of those threats is contagious diseases. Although Ebola is a contagious disease, there will never be a large outbreak in the United States because it is not spread easily, America has an advanced medical infrastructure and a government system to combat such attacks. Ebola is not spread easily. One of the reason Ebola is difficult to transmit is because it is not airborne. According to Dr. Peter Hotez, dean
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have to deal with unemployment, loss of food stability, and many more challenges to living a happy life. Ebola’s victims usually die during a short two week period. These last two weeks are not pleasant ones. Common symptoms are coughing up blood, fever, trouble breathing, headaches, eye redness, and other things which would make anyone unhappy. The first Ebola outbreak
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No matter what situation you find yourself facing, you will always know that however the outcome, you can always find valuable lessons from the crisis at hand. This is exactly the case with Hot zone by Richard Preston. Hot Zone is full of many different crises that could have possibly lead to horrendous outcomes. These crises all had the potential to end with a positive outcome or all hell could have broken loose. The Ebola virus especially has the potential to kill hundreds, if not thousands, if
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clothing has been provided for the people in Africa. You have to avoid coming in contact with infected people. You have wear protective covers over your eyes. Clothing and clinical waste must be incinerated or decontaminated. Symptoms include high fever, bleeding, and nervous system damage. Spread by body fluids, such as blood, and saliva. Incubation period is 21 days. They say by January 2015 they will have the vaccines. Ebola is a serious infectious disease, and can be fatal. People can get the
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Ebola and Influenza are two of the most deadly viral diseases; both diseases come from viruses that can have a detrimental effect to the human body. The modes of transmission and spread of the viruses are what make it most dangerous. According to the World Health Organisation (2012) Ebola has an extremely high fatality rate of 25 – 90% and Influenza kills between 250,000 and 500,000 people each year. Even though these two viral diseases share many similarities they differ on the type & structure
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Symptoms are easily dismissed as common symptoms of the flu or other relatively tame conditions: the early symptoms include headaches, fever, sore throat, and body aches (World Health Organization 2018). As the disease progress, a patient may begin experiencing gastrointestinal issues such as diarrhea and vomiting, and then organ failure ensues, usually targeting the renal system and liver
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Ebola is in infectious and frequently fatal disease marked by fever and severe internal bleeding,spread through contact with infected body fluids by a filovirus. Ebola virus is an aggressive pathogen that causes a highly lethal hemorrhagic fever syndrome in humans and nonhuman primates. Maintaining oxygen status and blood pressure is the treatment for not getting ebola .Ebola infection develop antibodies that last for at least 10 years, possibly longer. It is not known if people who recover are immune
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The Sacramento Bee illustrates the honest but dark tone that people make a big deal out of a disease like ebola but Americans die by other ways. A disease that hasn't came to America and yet America is scared they are doing to die by it. Other Americans die by other ways like obesity, tobacco, and alcohol. These are other deadly ways Americans die. In the foreground is a obesite man with the word America on it. In the background is the ways how people died and what the cause was, for example obesity
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Forest Fragments – Assignment Questions The ‘Forest Fragments’ Assignment is an individual assignment, completed and submitted individually to the dropbox PART II: Data Interpretation (9 marks) Examine the data you collected and the calculations you made to answer the following questions: 2.1 What extra information is included in the Shannon’s Diversity Index (vs. richness), and how is this information useful? Why would a scientist use Shannon’s Diversity Index in addition to a richness
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