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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status of Ebola and Leishmaniasis are deadly diseases according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Ebola is comprised of five distinct species: Zaïre‚ Sudan‚ Côte d’Ivoire‚ Bundibugyo and Reston‚ which causes 25-90% deaths found in African clinics. Leishmaniasis is caused by parasites which transmit this disease by the bite of a tiny female phlebotomine sand fly. This deadly disease is estimated to infect 1-2 million new cases every year. The two diseases that are similar to Ebola and Leishmaniasis
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Topic: Ebola General Purpose: (To inform about Ebola) August 21st‚ 2014‚ Saah Exco‚ a 10-year-old boy found on the beach abandoned‚ sick and all alone. This is just one case. Specific Purpose: The harmful effects Ebola has on the body are deadly‚ it is estimated this virus has affected 3.800 people in West Africa and around 2‚300 have died so far from it. Central Idea: Today I am going to explain the symptoms/transmission‚ diagnosis‚ and what health officials do to prevent this virus
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Ebola Ebola is the virus Ebolavirus (EBOV)‚ a viral genus‚ and the disease Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF)‚ a viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF). The virus is named after the Ebola River Valley in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire)‚ which is near the site of the first recognized outbreak in 1976 at a mission hospital run by Flemish nuns. It remained largely obscure until 1989 when several widely publicized outbreaks occurred among monkeys in the United States. The virus interferes
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-에볼라 바이러스 취사율 Ebola virus is one of the four ebolaviruses known to cause disease in humans. It has the highest case-fatality rate of these ebolaviruses‚ averaging 83% since first described in 1976‚ although fatality rates up to 90% have been recorded in one epidemic (2002–03). There have also been more outbreaks of ebola virus than of any other ebolavirus. - 사망자 26 September 2014 – The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) today said it is intensifying its cooperation with a wide range
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XXXXXXX Professor XXXX English 101 22 September 2014 “The most terrifying thing about Ebola” by Benjamin Hale portrays a darker side of Ebola epidemic which have caused devastating effect in West Africa has become the most deadly killer on the planet affecting thousands of people. Ebola have gained attention for some of the top health organizations raising concerns as one of the fastest killing virus known to human kind. We humans tend to not give up on humanity very easily. It is very well
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An American freelance cameraman working for NBC News in Liberia has tested positive for Ebola and will be flown back to the U.S. for treatment. The freelancer‚ Ashoka Mukpo‚ 33‚ was hired Tuesday to be a second cameraman for NBC News Chief Medical Editor and Correspondent Dr. Nancy Snyderman. Snyderman is with three other NBC News employees on assignment in Monrovia‚ reporting on the Ebola outbreak. Mukpo came down with symptoms on Wednesday‚ feeling tired and achy. As part of a routine temperature
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Gnim Bazim Period 2 EbolaLiberia Internet Sources: http://www.heritage.org/index/country/liberia http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/liberia.htm http://www.ok.gov/opm/jfd/xspecs/x27.htm Liberia: ● Population size: 4‚092‚310 (July 2014 est.) ● ● ● ● ● Population growth rate: 2.52% (2014 est.) Birth Rate: 35.07 births/1‚000 population (2014 est.) Death Rate: 9.9 deaths/1‚000 population (2014 est.) Migration Rate: 0 migrant(s)/1‚000 population (2014 est.) Climate: tropical; hot
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DALLAS — The Texas nurse who contracted Ebola while caring for the first person to die of the virus in the U.S. has been identified as 26-year-old Nina Pham. Health officials have not released the nurse’s name‚ but Yahoo News identified Pham through public records and a state nursing database. Then on Monday‚ Pham’s family confirmed her identity to local Dallas ABC News affiliate WFAA. Pham‚ a critical care nurse at Texas Health Presbyterian Dallas‚ is one of at least 50 people who cared
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Ebola Virus Ebola virus (EBOV) is considered to be one of the most belligerent contagious agents and has an ability to cause highly fatal hemorrhagic fever syndrome that results in human and non-human primate’s death (NHPs) during the days of exposure. The first notification of the virus was mentioned in the Ebola River valley in Zaire for the time of an outburst in 1976. Moreover‚ the outbursts have appeared in Africa over the following 27 years‚ with death rates that differ from 50 to 90%. In
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