inside of the blood vessels. This increases permeability of the blood vessels‚ leading to blood leaking out of the vessels. The virus causes interference in the body’s ability to coagulate and thicken a person’s blood. Symptoms of this disease include fever‚ severe headache‚ muscle pain‚ weakness‚ diarrhea‚ vomiting‚ abdominal pain‚ and unexplained hemorrhaging. These symptoms may appear anywhere between 2-21 days after exposure‚ but manifestation of symptoms usually averages around 8-10 days after exposure
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Analysis of the poem “Sea Fever” by John Masefield The poem is about a person whose intense desire is to return to the sea. The person or the speaker has been to the sea before and the repetition of the line “I must go down to the seas again” in every stanza‚ brings out the speaker’s longing to experience sea life again. The speaker wants only a star to guide his tall ship‚ with the sails moving to the wind thereby wishing for a solitary life‚ with only nature taking control in directing him. “And
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Ebola is the name of a group of viruses belonging to the genus Ebolavirus‚ family Filoviridae‚ and for the disease that these viruses cause‚ Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever. Ebola‚ and its close relative Marburg are unique in the microbiological world in that they are the only viruses that are long and stretched‚ resembling pieces of string or as "spaghetti that had spilled onto the floor‚" as stated by author Richard Preston of the non-fictional book "The Hot Zone." that a sample of Ebolavirus and Marburgvirus
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David Denby’s "Jungle Fever" was written as a dispute to Chinua Achebe’s argument against the significance of Heart of Darkness. Achebe argued that Heart of Darkness supports the dehumanization of Africans which has helped fuel the Western discrimination against Africans. Denby creates an argument of how has significant importance to literature. Denby argues his point through his journey in a college classroom. Denby observes a Literature Humanities class at Columbia College that is reading Heart
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What is Ebola? 1. Simply‚ the Ebola virus is an aggressive pathogen that causes a highly lethal fever syndrome in humans and nonhuman primates. Ebola was discovered in 1976‚ originally. Five Ebola species have been identified as time has progressed. Ebola was named for a small river near Maridi‚ Sudan. Since the emergence of filo viruses in 1967‚ there have been over 1000 cases of Ebola or Marburg‚ with more than 50% of the patients dying within days on the onset of acute symptoms. It is considered
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pairing it up with commonly a sore subject. In this case that subject was Ebola. Ebola is a fatal disease caused by the Ebola virus and spread through bodily fluids‚ much like how HIV‚ mononucleosis‚ and Hepatitis B are spread. Its factors include fever and severe internal bleeding that leads to death (Oxford). Ebola is an issue that has Americans worried for their health because of its fatal statistics. The outbreak can be traced back to African countries where the virus has effected 9‚000 people
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Notes: The French Revolution - Application of the Fever Model World History‚ Culture‚ and Geography Incubation Stage: Causes Social Inequality - three estates •Three estates •First Estate (upper __________________) - 1% of population‚ taxed peasants •Second Estate (__________________) - 2-3% of population‚ paid no taxes‚ taxed peasants •Third Estate (___________________________‚ peasants‚ workers) - paid up to 1/2 of income in taxes Enlightenment Ideas/American Rev. •Belief all men
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Getting treatment right away may increase the chances of survival. Call your healthcare provider if you have traveled to West Africa and know you have been exposed to Ebola. One should also seek medical attention if you develop symptoms of Ebola or a fever. Healthcare workers and lab technicians must also practice very careful precautions. This includes isolating people with Ebola and wearing protective gowns‚ gloves‚ mask and eye shields when coming in contact with the infected person or their belongings
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Ebola Ebola hemorrahagic fever is a 20 year old virus that‚ with a mortality rate of 50% to 90%‚ is one of the world’s deadliest viruses. Its causative organism is called Ebola virus. Ebola virus is a member of filoviridae‚ a family of negative-strained RNA viruses. The filoviridae family consists of five known members‚ Marburg‚ Ebola Zaire‚ Ebola Sudan‚ Ebola Reston‚ and Ebola Tai. Ebola virus is spread in a number of ways. An outbreak starts when an infected animal or insect‚ called a
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The Filoviridae family of viruses is where the Ebola virus belongs. The virus is distinguished by long filamentous structure which can present as straight‚ branched‚ and circular or a folded strand with a uniform diameter of approximately 80 nm but can be many different lengths. Liver cells‚ neutrophils‚ endothelial cells and macrophages are specifically targeted by the virus. Large quantities of cytokines are created by infected cells which solicits a large response from the immune system and interrupts
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