The smallpox virus was once one of the most feared diseases in the world‚ and for good reason. Variola was a contagious virus that caused fever and painful‚ pus filled blisters all over the body. Victims had about a one fourth chance of survival‚ and survivors were covered with small‚ pitted scars and sometimes blinded or arthritic. Popping sporadically up in various civilizations‚ smallpox left a trail of destruction through two thousand plus years of mankind’s history. The story of smallpox is
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Ebola Outbreak Timeline http://www.newsday.com/news/world/theebolacrisis15importantmomentsin20141. 9454173 December 6th‚ 2013: A twoyearold child died in Meliandou in southern Guinea and was later identified as "patient zero". The virus remained localized until February 2014‚ when a healthcare worker in a neighboring province died. First ebola patient ‚ the outbreak started with patient zero contaminated two more people which caught the attention of the general public once r
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The Ebola virus increasingly gained strength and has spread quickly throughout the human population in the epicenter of Africa. Although populations have natural boom and bust periods‚ Ebola has been dangerously contagious due to the “doubling rate of the viral population” that continued to increase from 2013 to 2016. Because the book was not updated since the author began writing this text and then published it‚ the Ebola topic has changed. Graffin left off describing that the Ebola virus is extremely
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rabies virus is in the family Rhabdoviridae in the Mononegavirale order of viruses. The rabies virus is usually bullet-shaped and is made of a long single-stranded spiral chain of RNA. The virus envelope is made of matrix protein and is studded with glycoproteins. 3. People usually contract rabies after they are bitten by an animal that has been infected with the rabies virus‚ though it has been shown that in rare cases rabies can infect people who just touch infected animals. The virus spreads
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disease (Importance of Childhood Vaccinations. 2007). Having your child vaccinated also helps the community to stay healthier‚ because there are some that cannot be vaccinated‚ either for medical reasons‚ or that they are too old or still to young. “Vaccines are held to the...
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A vaccine is a biological preparation intended to improve an individual’s immunity to a specific illness or disease. Most vaccines are composed of weakened or killed forms of an agent that resembles a disease-causing microorganism. A typically safe version of the pathogen‚ which is unable to cause the disease‚ is then produced by the altered or inactivated state. Once the vaccine is administered into the blood stream‚ the agent is recognized as a foreign body‚ which then triggers the process of
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the occurring problem we have with the virus Ebola and what you can do to stay safe on your journey to where ever it is you are traveling to. The first step is to inform you what Ebola is and what you can do to prevent from getting it. 1. 1. A filovirus that causes disease in humans and nonhuman primates and spreads through contact with bodily fluids of infected people and animals. Bats are thought to be the host reservoir for the virus. Also called Ebola virus. An acute‚ usually fatal form of hemorrhagic
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on Australian audiences. I have chosen two newspaper articles from the Courier Mail and the New York Times which express their very contrasting opinions about the Ebola epidemic currently happening in West Africa‚ one saying Ebola is out of control about and the other saying Ebola is nothing to worry about. The first article titled Ebola victims’ bodies left to rot in the street as crisis
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the ebola outbreak happened in the United States. The threat of a widespread virus across the US is very real. With the Zika virus and ebola going on‚ we need to be as prepared as possible here in America. The US is not ready for a pandemic‚ and here are some reasons why. The American hospitals are not ready for a pandemic. In Dallas‚ Texas‚ hospital workers sent a man who had been to an ebola-infected country and had been showing signs of illness‚ home for two days. “The US response to ebola has
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A dangerous virus strong as Ebola is ready to spread throughout America and it is a dangerous airborne virus that could cause Outbreak. After an African monkey carrying a deadly Motaba virus enters U.S‚ and outbreak occurs in a California town. The Virus is lethal and able to kill human beings less than twenty-four hours and a team of doctors from Center of Disease Control try to control the disease. Disease experts Colonel Sam Daniels and his ex-wife Colonel Robbie Daniels try to control the spread
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