the smallpox vaccine may have had an even more significant impact in terms of lives saved” said Dr. Baker the director of the medicine history. Vaccination is the administration of antigenic material (a vaccine) to stimulate an individual’s immune system to develop adaptive immunity to a pathogen. Vaccines can prevent or ameliorate morbidity from infection. The effectiveness of vaccination has been widely studied and verified; for example‚ the influenza vaccine‚[1] the HPV vaccine‚[2] and the chicken
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Harasimchuk LAS Paper October 31st‚ 2014 Ebola Prevention The Ebola outbreak that started in Africa has become a major health issue for the United States. When the virus surfaced‚ many feared that it would be brought back from Africa and infect North America. The world health organization (WHD) explains that Ebola virus disease (EVD)‚ formerly known as Ebola hemorrhagic fever is a severe‚ often fatal illness in humans. The WHD elaborated by saying‚ “The virus is transmitted to people from wild animals
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rash .Symptoms include Rash and fever for two to three days. Rubella is spread by contact with an infected person‚ through coughing and sneezing. Rubella vaccine (contained in MMR vaccine) can prevent this disease. If death occurs‚ it is within few days of onset of symptoms. Cowpox Cowpox is a skin disease caused by a virus known as the cowpox virus. Cowpox is transmitted by touch from infected animals to humans. Cowpox is similar to but much milder than the highly contagious and sometimes deadly smallpox
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Ebola disease is a devastating illness‚ with at least 6 random outbreaks in the past decade in Africa‚ killing not only people but also a large number of gorillas‚ which threatens the species into extinction. The mystery surrounding Ebola has grown because the disease often fails to appear for years‚ sometimes even decades‚ and then suddenly breaks out in seemingly aimless areas(“Ebola threatens Apes in Africa” http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Ebola_Threatens_Apes_In_Africa.html). Ebola disease
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Topic: Combatting the Ebola Outbreak in West Africa Country: Brazil Delegate: Andrew Felder School: Houston Academy for International Studies The Ebola virus started in 1976 in West Africa. Ebola is a fatal disease that is infectious and causes the host of this disease
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| Very 1st person to contract Ebola virus began to show symptoms. Ten days later he was dead | 1976 | These chemicals‚ the team found‚ target the protein encoded by the NPC1 gene identified as essential by the other research group. By binding to the NPC1 gene product in the endosome‚ the drug molecules appear to prevent ebola from being able to attach itself‚ preventing it from bursting the endosome bubble and escaping into the cell. | September 1‚ 1976 | Ebola-Zaire (ZEBOV)ZEBOV is even more
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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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A virus is a small infectious agent that can replicate only inside the living cells of an organism. Viruses can infect all types of organisms‚ from animals and plants to bacteria and archaea.[1] Since Dmitri Ivanovsky’s 1892 article describing a non-bacterial pathogen infecting tobacco plants‚ and the discovery of the tobacco mosaic virus by Martinus Beijerinck in 1898‚[2] about 5‚000 viruses have been described in detail‚[3] although there are millions of different types.[4] Viruses are found in
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What is Ebola? Ebola was first discovered in West Africa near the Ebola River. It is a severe‚ often fatal‚ disease caused by infection with one of the Ebola virus strains. According to the World Health Organization‚ the latest outbreak of the Ebola virus in West Africa (the largest outbreak to date) belongs to the Zaire species‚ one of three species that have been associated with large outbreaks in Africa. Wikipedia defines a virus as “a small infectious agent that replicates only inside the living
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Ebola speech http://www.studymode.com/essays/Ebola-Informative-Speech-61391491.html http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs103/en/ Plan: introduction What is Ebola (some facts) How was is created Effects of Ebola aka symptoms Transmission Treatment How can Ebola affect us Imagine being isolated from your own family and feeling unsure as to whether or not you will ever see them again. They do not want to come anywhere near you‚ for you are a threat to their health. The only visitors who
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