Ebola Outbreak Ebola‚ previously known as Ebola hemorrhagic fever‚ is a rare and deadly disease. Ebola viruses are found in several African countries. Ebola was first discovered in 1976 near the Ebola River in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Since then‚ outbreaks have appeared at irregular intervals in Africa. The 2014 Ebola outbreak is the largest Ebola outbreak in history and the first Ebola outbreak in West Africa. This outbreak is the first Ebola epidemic the world
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Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever (7th grade report) Ebola is a severe and often fatal disease in humans‚ and non-human primates‚ such as monkeys‚ gorillas‚ and chimpanzees. Scientists don’t know exactly where the virus was first originated. However they do believe that the virus is zoonotic‚ or animal born. They believe an animal host that is native to the African continent maintains it. A similar host would be monkeys associated with Ebola-Reston. Cases of Ebola Virus have been found in Congo
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A Study in Filoviruses Ever since I can remember‚ I have been a true fan of medical mysteries and the works of the infamous Michael Crichton and Richard Preston. Although Crichton was a prolific author and published bestseller after bestseller‚ he is most commonly remembered by my generation for his dinosaur adventure titled Jurassic Park‚ that launched a franchise and is still lauded today as a groundbreaking look at genetic modification at a time when the possibilities were just beginning to
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control the outbreaks. These are just some of the many questions about this deadly disease that could soon turn into an epidemic. The Ebola virus is a member of the negative strand RNA virus‚ also known as flivoviruses. Filovirus causes hemorrhagic fevers in humans‚ but there are only 2 known members of the filovirus so far; Ebola and Marburg virus. There are four different strains of Ebola: Sudan (EBOS)‚ Zaire
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TODAY 3. SYMPTOMS AND EFFECTS A. SEVERE FEVER‚ ABDOMINAL PAIN 1. INSIDES "MELT" B. DEATH RATES AND TOTALS 2 SURVIVORS‚ BUT EBOLA VIRUS AS THE CAUSE WAS NOT VERIFIED 4. CURES A. NONE KNOWN CURES‚ RESEARCH BEING PERFORMED ON MONKEYS. Ebola virus is a relatively recently discovered virus‚ that when it infects humans‚ caries with it a 50-90% fatality rate. Symptoms of this deadly virus include Sudden Fever‚ Weakness‚ Muscle Pain‚ Headache‚ Sore Throat‚
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Ebola virus disease (EVD)‚ formerly known as Ebola haemorrhagic fever‚ is a severe‚ often fatal illness in humans. The virus is transmitted to people from wild animals and spreads in the human population through human-to-human transmission. The average EVD case fatality rate is around 50%. Case fatality rates have varied from 25% to 90% in past outbreaks. The first EVD outbreaks occurred in remote villages in Central Africa‚ near tropical rainforests‚ but the most recent outbreak in
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reservoir for the virus. Also called Ebola virus. An acute‚ usually fatal form of hemorrhagic fever that is caused by this virus and is characterized by fever‚ headache‚ muscle pain‚ vomiting‚ diarrhea‚ and bleeding‚ especially from the mucous
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OGUN STATE COLLEGE OF HEALTH TECHNOLOGY‚ ILESE-IJEBU A PROPOSAL ON THE MEASURE TAKEN BY HEALTH WORKERS TOWARD PREVENTION OF EBOLA DISEASE VIRUS THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND MATRICULATION NUMBER ARE INCLUDED: S/N NAME MATRIC NO 1. LAWAL YUSIRAT MOTUNRAYO 14646 2. ODUGBEMI GBENGA AKANBI 15655 3. ODUNBAKU ODUNNAYO.O 15379 4. ODUKOYA MUIBAT AYODELE 15465 SUPERVISOR DR. ROSIJI COMFORT OLUWASEYI PROPOSAL FOR THE MEASURE TAKEN BY HEALTH WORKERS TOWARD PREVENTION OF EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE (A CASE STUDY
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Disease in Guinea - Preliminary Report. N Engl J Med E-pub ahead of print. Dudas G‚ Rambaut A (2104) Phylogenetic Analysis of Guinea 2014 EBOV Ebolavirus Outbreak. PLoS Curr 1: 1–11. Bausch DG‚ Demby AH‚ Coulibaly M‚ Kanu J‚ Goba A‚ et al. (2001) Lassa fever in Guinea: I. Epidemiology of human disease and clinical observations. Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis 1: 269–281. Khan SH‚ Goba A‚ Chu M‚ Roth C‚ Healing T‚ et al Leroy EM‚ Kumulungui B‚ Pourrut X‚ Rouquet P‚ Hassanin A‚ et al. (2005) Fruit bats as reservoirs
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1989‚ many monkeys started dying. Samples were sent to Fort Detrick (USAMRIID) for study. At the time‚ people thought the virus was Simian hemorrhagic fever virus‚ a fever harmless to humans but almost always fatal to other primates. When they sent it to biosafety level 3‚ one of the samples appeared to be contaminated with the harmless hemorrhagic fever virus. Two USAMRIID scientists exposed themselves to the virus by sniffing the flask. When they tested the samples with known Level 4 agents‚ only EBOV
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