Scavenger Hunt Ebola Log on to the CDC Special Pathogens web site http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/spb/mnpages/dispages/ebola.htm Then click on the menu button Ebola Hemorragic Fever Distribution Map Where do most of the Ebola outbreaks seem to occur? Most seem to occur in the Congo and Uganda. Now go back to the first page and click on Information on Ebola hemorrhagic fever Read through this fact sheet. What did you find interesting about Ebola? I found it interesting that Ebola has no carrier
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The topic that I would like to address for my zombie project is a more efficient mode of transportation in order to survive a zombie apocalypse. In The Zombie Survival Guide‚ Max Brooks he explains different means of transportation but limits them to water or air travel. In an apocalypse‚ healthy surviving humans should not be restricted to their means of travel. In order to stay alive‚ an adequate form of transportation is a necessity. Walking is too dangerous and slow‚ while a standard car purposes
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Surviving the Elements of a Zombie Attack With the zombie apocalypse quickly approaching‚ it is crucial to find a safe location that is located within a few hours of traveling and that could offer shelter from inclement weather‚ provides a large dry area that is equipped for sleeping‚ storing weapons‚ ammunition‚ food and medical supplies. The Eastern Kentucky Mountains are an undeveloped area that is sparsely populated and is reachable with limited entry. The mountains offer isolation‚ caves
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8/28/10 One of the topics we discussed this past semester that interested me the most was the role of zombies in entertainment. Movies‚ television shows‚ and the internet have been overflowing with anything zombie related since the zombie craze began. Although there are many metaphors for the zombie in all three of these resources my favorite is the issue of population. In nearly all depictions and discussions of zombies they always multiply in a dramatic rate because they infect those who they feast
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EBOLA OUTRAGE‚ BY: JAYLA FRANKLIN Two US humanitarian workers who contracted Ebola while working in Liberia have been released from Emory University hospital in Atlanta after receiving an experimental drug treatment which has yet to go through full clinical and human trials. Dr. Kent Brantly of Texas and Nancy Writebol‚ a missionary from North Carolina‚ contracted Ebola while responding to the outbreak in Liberia. Brantly and Writebol were both treated in the hospital’s containment
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AMC”s “The Walking Dead” is a post-apocalyptic television show based on an ongoing comic book series. Set in Atlanta‚ Georgia the plot follows a small group of people‚ led by police officer Rick Grimes‚ struggling to survive after a pandemic of an unknown disease causes people to turn into zombies. After infection‚ a person initially dies‚ but is then somehow revived back to “life.” These zombies‚ or “walkers” as they are deemed on the show‚ seemingly have no self-awareness‚ but are able to walk
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wanted to write about the Cordyceps because it’s one of the most interesting type of fungi I have ever heard about‚ mostly because I love zombie movies and this fungus was the inspiration to really popular game called “The last of Us.” I first heard about it in a BBC documentary “Planet Earth” years ago and I still remembered watching the scene of the so called “Zombie Fungi‚” being really fascinated by it. The cordyceps belong in the kingdom of fungi‚ different from plants and animals. Although some
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The Walking Dead Group analysis INDIVIDUAL PAPER ASSIGNMENT For the individual paper assignment we were given the task of selecting a movie‚ t.v. show‚ or series and to do an analysis on the effectiveness or ineffectiveness of group decisions in the film or show. I chose to do my assignment on the show the walking dead‚ specifically season 4. The Walking Dead is a t.v. series that takes place in an apocalyptic setting‚ in modern times. After an unknown plague has swept through
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survivors in the midst of a zombie apocalypse that has decimated some seventy-five percent of the population. The cable series which first premiered in 2010 made no bones about its weekly offering of flesh-eating‚ blood-splattered gore. The opening sequence of the pilot episode features a virus-ridden little girl being thrust into the pavement when former sheriff Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) shoots a bullet into her skull as he struggles to ward off her flesh-hungry zombie attack. “The Walking Dead”
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It was another terrible day. It has been more than five years since the zombie apocalypse began. Normally on a day like this‚ it would smell like flowers‚ and sometimes car smoke when cars passed by‚ but when the zombies came‚ it always smelled like a dead body. Outside‚ the only sound you heard were the dead wind‚ and a zombie would make a sound every now and then. The sky was rarely blue anymore‚ it was always a dark grey sky. Food now was very hard to find‚ and when you did find some‚ it tasted
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