Ebola Research Paper

Ebola, it a was major threat to society, It was threatening all parts of culture. It was affecting how we live, and how we acted and I've listed some major points as well a concision sentence I wrote about how it can transfer, the effects, and a little history about the Ebola Virus.

The Ebola Virus happens over in a matter of days. The victim staggers, confused, exhausted, and collapses in a fever. There eyes turn red and they start to vomit blood. Within a matter of hours of having this virus, a person can bleed out because of throwing up blood and die a terrible death with blood coming from there eyes ears and other orifices. At examining the dead victims, pathologists were very surprised to discover that the victims organs have disintegrated
into an unrecognizable mass of bloodied tissue. The killer is a “hot” virus a highly contagious and deadly that has never been seen before and had no known cure.

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 reported to broke out in Zaire this time infecting over two hundred and killing one hundred and sixty.

"Can Ebola make it to the U.S.?" peopled asked. the answer to that question is yes. It has happened in 1989 in a rural town in Washington named Gabon. There a shipment of monkeys was received. It was later discovered that the shipments of monkeys were contaminated with the Ebola virus. The fortunate part is that this certain type of virus only infected monkeys and not humans.

"Ebola is part of a new rising viral infections, filoviruses, arenaviruses, filoviruses, and bunya viruses are the viruses responsible for causing viral hemorrhagic fevers. All the forms of viral hemorrhagic fever begin with the fever and the muscle aches. These diseases usually progress until the patient becomes very ill with respiratory problems, severe bleeding, kidney malfunctions, and shock. The conclusions of the viral hemorrhagic fever can range from the mild illness to death." by https://www.niaid.nih.gov/topics/ebolaMarburg/research/Pages/default.aspx

"The Ebola virus spreads through the blood and is replicated in organs, effecting the liver, lymphatic organs, kidneys, ovaries and testes.
The central lesions appear to be those affecting the vascular endothelium and the palates. The resulting symptoms are bleeding, especially in the nose, abdomen, and pericardium. Capillary leakage appears to lead to the loss of intervascular volume, bleeding, shock and acute respiratory disorder seen in fatal cases. Patients basically die of intractable shock. Those with severe illness often have fevers and are delirious, combative and difficult to control."
https://web.stanford.edu/group/virus/filo/history.html

The Ebola virus is transmitted through contact with the body fluids of those infected. After infection people usally develop the symptoms within 21 days.

Ebola’s signs are flu like symptoms followed by vomiting, diarrhea, and bleeding from the skin, ears, mouth, nose and rectum. Infected people’s internal organs often will disintegrate. There was no known cure for Ebola at that time so it will kill up to ninety percent of all those infected.

Some victims of the Ebola virus one out of ten people infected, survive the virus’s deadly operations. Due to its self-limiting nature the Ebola virus is known to sometime die out within a person before killing the host organism.

The Ebola virus has become an unwelcome reminder that, for all its advances, modern medicine has yet to win the war against infectious diseases until Jun 22 2012.

In order for the Ebola virus to thrive it must infect an animal or plant without killing it. Once a virus kills its host it dies . Therefore there must be a host that the virus infects but does not kill. Once experts discover Ebola’s natural host they can teach people how they could avoid it.

Zoologist Christophe Borsch he is in the Swiss Institute of Zoology and his team has been studying chimps since 1979. The team performed an autopsy on one chimp that had died of the an weird illness and discovered that it had suffered from a hemorrhagic fever. Eight days later one of the scientists who helped with the autopsy became sick. She survived, but her blood samples showed that she had been infected with Ebola.

But what is to blame in the outbreaks of these horrible diseases?
Experts believe that the Ebola epidemic in Zaire happened in part because hospitals there lack common medical supplies such as surgical gloves, masks, new hypodermic syringes to inject medicines, and clean water. Ill equipped doctors and nurses became infected by coming in contact with the bodily fluids of sick patients they treated. The medical personnel went on to infect other patients and people they know triggering the epidemic.

Experts also believe that what remains of the surveillance systems unable to deal with emerging diseases like Ebola.

The American legislatures at the time see no reason to spend extra money since the Ebola virus is not really a threat to the United States. So no research is being done at the time until a person brought it in America were they found a cure quickly so the person could live this made headlines news of a person that had Ebola

According to researchers at the time all over the world there are some simple steps the governments can take to make progress against Ebola. For starters more money will fix a big part of the problem. The Ebola virus as mysterious and fatal as can be stopped and destroyed if we spend more money for
research.

The spread of knowledge about the Ebola virus is expected to solve another big part of the problem if we do not try to get third world countries up to today’s standards we are not only threatening the United States but also the world.

In conclusion, one has seen the facts as horrible and gory as they are, but it is the truth and we no longer have to worry about this disease but there are still more deadly diseases that we have to stop.