Viruses are a big problem all across the world in the last few decades. The virus Ebola has caught the attention of many people in the public and government. Viruses, like Ebola, that kill huge amounts of people is a major threat to the entire world. The only way to find a cure for Ebola is through our use of science and technology. Ebola has just been noticed in the last few months, but Ebola has been around for years. People didn’t know or didn’t care about it as it was in Africa. Now that is has come to the United States of America, it has become a worldwide issue.
After knowing the symptoms of Ebola, it takes 2-21 days for the virus to kill its host. This is its incubation period. Humans are not infectious until they develop symptoms.
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Ebola is caught into the human population through close contact with the blood, organs or other infected bodily fluids/parts of animals such as chimpanzees, gorillas, fruit bats, monkeys found dead or ill. Ebola then spreads through human to human transmission via direct contact with blood, secretions to other bodily fluids of infected people, and surfaces like bedding, clothing of the infected can also transmit the …show more content…
Scientists have thoughts about what caused the spread of Ebola, but a solution needs to be found quickly because there’s a high probability for the virus to spread worldwide and become an extensive problem. They know that it has come from the chimpanzees or domestic pigs, so these two animals are probably immune to the virus. The University of Manitoba performed an experiment to find out if pigs were immune to the virus. The first experiment was done with piglets and chimpanzees. The piglets were then placed in a room with four cynomolgus macaques (crab eating monkeys). They were separated by wire cages to ensure that the species don’t engage in direct contact. Within a few days, the piglets showed signs of being infected by Ebola. Nine days later, all the piglets appeared to have recovered from the disease. Although, 2 of the monkeys had still been infected by Ebola and then transferred it to the other monkeys through direct physical contact. The virus travelled between the monkeys, then to the pigs, but the pig’s immune system seemed to be able to fight against and beat the virus. The scientists still need a lot more evidence to stop the spreading of the virus. This experiment created some theories of how Ebola may have been transmitted among the animals and how it could be cured. Ebola is transmitted when an infected organism is touched. Right now there
But the virus had never been seen outside of Africa and the consequences of Having the virus in a busy suburb of Washington DC is too terrifying to contemplate. Theoretically, an airborne strain of Ebola could emerge and circle. the world in about six weeks. Ebola virus victims usually "crash and bleed," a. military term which literally means the virus attacks every organ of the body. and transforms every part of the body into a digested slime of virus particles.
...nd make people aware that it is more common than people realize and that a rather large part of America has the illness, whether they know it or not. This paper also discussed how the virus, could target certain individuals more easily than others based on the genetic makeup of an individual and families.
In the New York Times interview of Richard Preston, the well renowned author of The Hot Zone, is conducted in order to shed some light on the recent Ebola outbreak and the peaked re-interest in his novel. The Hot Zone is articulated as “thriller like” and “horrifying.” Preston uses similar diction and style choices corresponding with his novel. By choosing to use these specific methods he is advertising and promoting The Hot Zone to the audience members that are interested in reading, and reaching out to those who read and enjoyed his novel. He continuously grabs and keeps the reader’s attention by characterizing and personifying Ebola as the “enemy [and] the invisible monster without a face” in order to give the spectators something to grasp and understand the Ebola virus. Along with characterization, Preston uses descriptions with laminate
Almost no one on Earth has any immunity at all to this virus, which makes ordinary vaccines useless against it. The sudden spread of the virus into Europe foreshadows an epidemic development that could be worldwide. Ultimately, there is no way to protect ourselves against epidemics. They will keep disappearing and coming back in new forms.
Ebola Zaire, a type of strain of Ebola, attacks every organ and tissue in the human body except skeletal muscle and bone. Small blood clots begin to appear in the bloodstream. The blood then thickens and slows, and the clots fit together in a mosaic. The mosaic thickens and throws more clots and the clots drift through the bloodstream into the small capillaries, where they get stuck. This shuts off the blood supply to various parts of the body, causing dead spots to appear in the brain, liver, kidneys, lings, intestines, and all through the skin.
The Ebola-Zaire branch was the first to be recognized and has the highest death rate of 89 percent. The Ebola-Sudan subtype has a death rate of 53 percent, and the Ebola Haemorrhagic Fever virus as a whole having a 68 percent death rate. Since the Ebola virus has not been recognized for a long time, it cannot be said for sure how it is transmitted though it is believed to be zoonotic, meaning that it is transmitted by animals and from contact with the virus, making it spread quickly through family and friends. It also transmits itself nosocomially, where it can transmit quickly through a health care environment, like a hospital. This is especially dangerous in places like Africa,...
Ebola Virus comes from the known strain family virus called filo viruses, which are zoonotic pathogens. Symptoms include fever, headaches, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, throat pains, and muscle pains. These symptoms can start as early as 2 days to as late as 3 weeks after contracting the virus. This public health problem dates back to the 1970’s where the first three known outbreaks occurred in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Sudan (Li, Chen 2014). The Ebola virus is introduced into a population when there is close contact with the blood, secretions, or bodily fluids of animals that are infected. The virus started in Africa by humans coming into close contact with infected chimps, gorillas, bats, monkeys, antelopes, and porcupines. Ebola spreads within a community through human to human transmission. The virus is able to spread quickly due to direct contact of the skin or mucous membranes. Ebola is a problem in the world for six main reasons. First, there is no cure for the disease, vaccines have been tested but none are available for use. Second, Ebola is a very deadly disease. It can kill up to 90% of victims within a couple days of exposure (Cunningham 2003). Filo viruses cause episodic, lethal and hemorrhagic outbreaks in humans and in primates (Olival, Islam, Daszak 2013). Third, healthcare workers are becoming infected while treating patients. This is due to the close contact with patients and healthcare personnel not taking full precautions. Fourth, infected individuals are still contagious after death. This means that at funerals, family members have the potential to become infected with close contact to the infected individual. Fifth, people are infectious for as long as the virus is still pr...
This virus is similar to Ebola, because it started in the same place. Lab workers in Germany, in 1967, contracted the new virus while working with African Green Monkeys, which had the virus. The virus is described as a hemorrhagic fever. It has a fatality rate up to 90% and spreads through human to human contact. The first symptoms can be as simple as a fever and a headache, then can progress to organ failure, and fatal internal bleeding.
Ebola from everyone’s point of view is seen as inferno. Dr. Steven Hatch’s memorable journey began with him volunteering to leave for Liberia in 2013 to work at a hospital in Monrovia to fight Ebola in one of its most affected areas. There were only a few patients with Ebola when he arrived. The number of patients rapidly increased over his time in Liberia. After six months Ebola was declared a world health emergency and not only were ordinary people outside of the hospital getting the virus but the medical personnel that were tending to the patients had caught it and some of them had even died.
In 1976 the first two Ebola outbreaks were recorded. In Zaire and western Sudan five hundred and fifty people reported the horrible disease. Of the five hundred and fifty reported three hundred and forty innocent people died. Again in 1995 Ebola reportedly broke out in Zaire, this time infecting over two hundred and killing one hundred and sixty. (Bib4, Musilam, 1)
One of the current major concerns in the world is the outbreak of Ebola. Ebola is an infectious disease that comes from the Ebola virus and can cause death if the patient is left untreated. The disease can be managed with treatment of the patient, however. Ebola is a disease that is a major concern in the Subsaharan African Realm, and in the North American Realm, but it is beginning to be dealt with sufficiently in the Northern American Realm. Ebola started its first outbreak in West Africa.
The Ebola virus, being from the virus pathogen, isn’t a living organism and therefore invades host cells and takes over the nucleus which allows it to replicate itself and survive. The disease itself is spread by any type of fluids such as saliva, blood, moisture from breathing and also it can be present in a male’s semen. In the body it spreads via the blood stream and infects healthy organ cells causing them to be damaged and killed, which leads to internal bleeding and in some cases organ failure. In the West Africa outbreak, 28,000 cases of Ebola were reported with 11,000 of those cases proving to be fatal (as reported by the world health organisation). One of the symptoms of Ebola is that on the renal systems and the liver and that is that their function is significantly reduced and that can be followed by internal and external bleeding e.g. bleeding from the eyes, ears, nose or mouth
Genetic data confirms that the Ebola epidemic in West Africa is being spread from human to human, not through contact with infected animals like many have started to believe. The findings emphasize the need for better public health measures to keep the epidemic from spreading more widely among people rather than devoting more resources to tracking down infected animals. People need to care and help to stop Ebola. (Sharf)
Imagine a country where you could share a drink with someone and catch a virus that gives you a higher chance of dying than survival, a country where everyone is in fear of being in public, and nurses are in fear of coming into work. Many issues and questions concern the problem of Ebola in our society. The issue that is the focus of this paper is how to prevent Ebola from spreading across the country and becoming a bigger problem than it already is now. There are steps we must take to defeat Ebola, and this is a virus we must eliminate because it's very easily spread, can create a great amount of hysteria; possibly even anarchy, and can be cured if researched well enough before it's too late.
Through these outbreaks, many health officials have gained knowledge and experience from working with the virus. They have come up with a plan to prevent the disease from spreading, but neither a cure nor a vaccination has been discovered. Ebola has not been around as long as other sicknesses, but doctors and researchers have had experience with it. Ebola is transmitted to direct contact with an individual. Blood contact with the patient has the highest risk (Klompas et al). Some say that precautions are not being taken as needed and researchers are acting ignorant about the situation, but the people are trying their hardest and doing what they can with what they have currently been given