Ebola Research Paper

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Many people believe Ebola is not an actual threat to the United States. However, we are at as great of risk as anyone in the world and America may just now be starting to notice that. Although Ebola was first discovered in the late 1970s’, it has slowly progressed its way into our current society causing the need for research to help find a preventative method to keep it from spreading anymore and causing a worldwide epidemic.
There are three different stands of Ebola; Ebola Zaire, Ebola Sudan, Ebola Reston, and a sister virus named Marburg. Ebola Zaire being the most lethal of all four of the viruses has fatality rate of eighty-eight percent. Ebola Sudan is not quite as fatal as Ebola Zaire, but doesn’t fall too short at a staggering fifty-three …show more content…

Symptoms may appear anywhere from 2 to 21 days after exposure to Ebola, but the average is 8 to 10 days. Symptoms generally range from fever, severe headaches, muscle pain, and weakness to diarrhea, vomiting, and abdominal pain. Also, the main symptom Ebola is known for is unexplained severe hemorrhaging, causing one to bleed from every orifice of their body. Recovery from Ebola depends on good supportive clinical care and the patient’s immune system response to the virus. People who recover from Ebola infection develop antibodies that can last for at least 10 years. (US …show more content…

Before they knew that he was plagued with the virus, doctors decided it would be best to send Monet to Nairobi Hospital. When he arrived he was rushed immediately into the intensive care unit. There, Monet ended up vomiting into the face of Dr. Shem Musoke, initially spreading the fatal virus onto him. However, they are still unaware that this is Marburg, so Dr. Musoke treats himself for Malaria and Typhoid Fever, but to no avail neither treatment works. At the suggestion of Dr. Antonia Bagshawe, Dr. Musoke has exploratory surgery thinking he may have gall stones. Although they never found any gall stones, his condition quickly deteriorated while on the operating table because his blood was refusing to clot. After the operation Dr. Musoke is placed in the care of Dr. David Silverstein, who believes his patient may be a victim of a lethal virus. As a result, Dr. Silverstein decides to send Dr. Musoke’s blood to the Institute of Virology in Sandringham, South Africa, and the CDC in Atlanta, Georgia. Afterwards Silverstein gets a call saying his patients’ blood was positive for Marburg, at the time little was known about Marburg. Because of the supportive care Dr. Musoke received, he was one of very few people to recover from the virus. (Preston

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