Suzette Arango-Chavez Professor Wicher English 1301 11:45 A.M. - 12:40 A.M. Cause and Effect 10/31/2014 Ebola: Todays Most Feared Virus or will we survive? Recently our world has been in panic about a contagious virus called Ebola. As more and more people come in contact with this horrible disease‚ we learn more and more about it. We learn where it came from‚ how you can contract the virus‚ and most importantly what might be the cure for it. This disease is quickly spreading around the world. Unsafe
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massive hemorrhages and clotting. This was a deadly disease which could be caught by the person who has it by as easily as it seeping through an open wound. Marburg is a filovirus which can be comprised with two types of viruses called Ebola Zaire and Ebola Sudan. Ebola Zaire is the worst out of the three‚ killing nine out of ten humans who have it. An incident occurred in Reston‚ Virginia where monkeys were being transported from the Philippines to a monkey house. Some of the monkeys started to drop
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somehow made it through. The samples of blood containing the Marburg the virus were given to the many laboratories around the world for future reasons‚ to help I.D. and make other researches on it. 1983- September 25-26 Ebola was named after the Ebola river.The first know emergence of Ebola Zaire‚ the hottest type of the virus strain‚ was on September 1976. It erupted and had spread to 55 villages near the river. It killed 9 out of 10 people and one of the hunters of it was Eugene Johnson. No one knew
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Summary Richard Preston’s Hot Zone is a horrific narration of the origin of filoviruses and their encounter with humans. These viruses include Marburg virus (MARV)‚ Ebola virus (EBOV) and Sudan virus (SUDV). They are also known as Biosafety Level 4 agents because they are extremely dangerous to humans and have no treatments or cure. Section 1: The Shadow of Mount Elgon This section details Charles Monet’s visit to Kitum cave‚ which is located in Mount Elgon‚ Kenya. During this trip‚ Monet
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powerful and dangerous‚ so dangerous that it can sometimes cause irreplaceable damage‚ but can also do good things. The Hot Zone shows that Ebola can spread worldwide and have devastating effects. Preston states that if Ebola manages to spread beyond central Africa‚ then it will be all over the world‚ from New York to Paris‚ but “we never knew it.”(99) If Ebola spreads worldwide‚ there would be a global epidemic. However‚ it did not‚ and very few people knew its dangers. Also‚ the World Health Organization
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could be. Many people could be affected in New York alone Ebola could have a global impact. The plane becomes a host it is carrying the virus in a sense. Example two: Both species‚ the human and the monkey‚ were in the presence of another life form‚ which was older and more powerful the either of them‚ and was a dweller in blood. (Pg 57) Richard Preston is use of the word older makes creates uncertainty. No one knows how long the Ebola virus has been. The "life form" (viruses are neither dead or
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This is an Essay on the book The Hot Zone by Richard Preston. Ebola is a hot virus‚ meaning it is very dangerous‚ and lethally hot. It gets into your body in numerous different ways‚ therefore making it extremely hard to fight against. The diseased virus gets into your body and immediately starts eating all of your tissue. This results in body functions ceasing to work. Your liver shuts down completely‚ leaving toxic wastes floating around in your blood stream. Your blood starts losing
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Nancy Jaax had been promoted to the Level 4* Biosafety containment area at USAMRIID.* She is assigned to research Ebola virus*. When she was cooking at home‚ she cut her right hand. Later‚ at work‚ she didn’t check her suit close enough. She was dissecting an EBOV-infected monkey‚ and one of the gloves on the hand with the open wound rips‚ and she is almost exposed to contaminated Ebola blood. The readers later find that Nancy was not infected. Peter Cardinal‚ a ten-year-old‚ visits Kitum Cave.
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Ebola By: Fahd Seddiki and Conrad Womelsdorf Discovery of Ebola The discovery of Ebola was made after an epidemic of this virus was spread throughout Sub-Sahara Africa. The actual discovery was made by a native by the name of DR. Ngoy Mushola. He discovered it in 1976 after the epidemic hit his country. The first case of Ebola was called Ebola Zaire. It was discovered in Zaire hence the name. The second discovery of Ebola was called Ebola Sudan; also it was discovered in Sudan. Although
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Ebola the Virus Picture‚ for one moment‚ numerous bloody bodies lying scattered and moaning in agony in blood-soaked beds as the life is slowly and painfully drawn from them as if they were soldiers that had just returned from one of the deadliest wars in history‚ bruised‚ battered and broken by their enemy. But they had fought no war‚ and had never laid eyes on their enemy‚ for the very thing that was destroying them was living and replicating at an enormous rate‚ right inside their own bodies
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