The Epstein Barr Virus April 17‚ 2014 Biology 202 American International College History and Discovery of the EBV In the year of 1943‚ a well-known surgeon by the name of Deins Burkitt was assigned to British Colonial African troops in East Africa. He was stationed in Kenya and Somaliland. Burkitt was ambitious to offer his help to Uganda at that time because it was both a thriving and peaceful country with much Christian activity. This appealed deeply to Burkitt’s religious views. After
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Casual Agent West Nile Virus is a part of the Flavivirdae family‚ genus Flavivirus (Gray & Webb 2014). A Flavivirus is a group of viruses that transmit diseases by arthropods. West Nile Virus is a mosquito borne virus. (Gray & Webb 2014). The West Nile Virus virion contains a linear‚ plus sense‚ single stranded RNA genome that is surrounded by an icosahedral capsid which is further surrounded by a lipid envelope (Gray & Webb 2014). The enveloped virus can enter the cells by endocytosis and result
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RUNNING HEAD: H1N1 INFLUENZA VIRUS 1 H1N1 Influenza Virus 2 H1N1 is a new influenza virus causing illness in people. This virus was first detected in residents of the United States in April of 2009. This virus is contagious and is spreading from person to person worldwide just as seasonal flu viruses spread. According to Up To Date (2009)‚ the month of July in the United States contained 43‚000 confirmed cases of H1N1 reported
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TOWARD PREVENTION OF EBOLA DISEASE VIRUS THE FOLLOWING NAMES AND MATRICULATION NUMBER ARE INCLUDED: S/N NAME MATRIC NO 1. LAWAL YUSIRAT MOTUNRAYO 14646 2. ODUGBEMI GBENGA AKANBI 15655 3. ODUNBAKU ODUNNAYO.O 15379 4. ODUKOYA MUIBAT AYODELE 15465 SUPERVISOR DR. ROSIJI COMFORT OLUWASEYI PROPOSAL FOR THE MEASURE TAKEN BY HEALTH WORKERS TOWARD PREVENTION OF EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE (A CASE STUDY OF GENERAL HOSPITAL IJEBU ODE) Introduction: Background of study Ebola virus disease (Ebola or EVD) is a severe
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The EBOLA VIRUS Disease Every few years‚ a new pandemic hits the globe and sends shivers down everyone’s spines. The latest one making headlines is the Ebola virus‚ that has infected and killed thousands of people in 5 West African countries‚ since the latest outbreak began in March 2014. So what is this disease that scientists have yet to find a cure for‚ and how do people catch it? Background & History The Ebola virus causes a serious and severe illness which is often deadly if untreated.
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The rabies virus is a zoonotic virus that kills an annual 55‚000 people in countries like Asia and Africa. The amount of deaths is so high in these two countries because they’re not as advanced in medicine as us and vaccinations aren’t as easy to get there Japan is a rabie free country leading with less than 5 cases the past 50 years. The reason why Japan has almost no cases of rabies is because they have a strict policy on domestic animals making sure they have all their shots and are not infected
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HIV/AIDS treatment‚ policy‚ research‚ epidemiology‚ and prevention from the University of California‚ San Francisco. hivinsite.ucsf.edu/ HIV & AIDS Virus AIDS - acquired immunodeficiency syndrome - was first reported in the United States in 1981 and has since become a major worldwide epidemic. AIDS is caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). By killing or damaging cells of the body’s immune system‚ HIV progressively destroys the body’s ability to fight infections and certain cancers
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inadequate health system and poor infrastructure. The Ebola virus‚ discovered in 1976‚ along a river in the Democratic Republic of Congo‚ recently started appearing
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Introduction This report will outline that it would be useful for our company to subsidize free distribution of anti-virus software to our home users. There will be analysis of the connection between the company ’s network and home users and how this will help our company ’s problems with viruses. I will discuss the other issues besides providing free software to home users that affect the network security of our firm. Additionally‚ I will describe the roles of top management/non-IT management
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temperature dropped rapidly so that crops failed. In the 1340s‚ the plague began to extend to many places. The plague was shrouding these places‚ everyone got panic. Even though the city decided to stop people outside came in‚ it still couldn’t stop the virus spreading. Cause we know that Yersinia pestis bacteria are transmitted from rats to humans‚ rats and other animals always can come into any places. As conditions worsen‚ some priests refused to do something for dead people like baptize them. There
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