Ebola virus is back‚ this time in West Africa‚ with over 350 cases and a 69% case fatality ratio at the time of this writing (Baize). The culprit is the Zaire ebola virus species‚ the most lethal Ebola virus known‚ with case fatality ratios up to 90%. The epicenter and site of first introduction is the region of Guéckédou in Guinea ’s remote southeastern forest region‚ spilling over into various other regions of Guinea as well as to neighboring Liberia and Sierra Leone. News of this outbreak engenders
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Period 6 “Outbreak” Movie Assignment: 1. The mercenary camp in the Motaba River Valley of Zaire was bombed in 1967 because in 1967‚ Motaba‚ a fictional deadly viral hemorrhagic fever‚ is discovered in a mercenary camp in Zaire and kept it as a top secret; two soldiers ordered the camp to be boomed to cover up the discovery and to stop the outbreak of the disease. 2. No‚ I would have removed all the people and
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connected to the subtype named Ebola-Reston that was quarantined from contaminated cynomolgus monkeys‚ which were brought to Italy and the US from the Philippines. There is no likelihood that the Ebola exists on other continents such as North America (“Viral hemorrhagic fevers–Ebola and Marburg”‚ 2009). It has been proven that the Ebola virus can be transferred from one human being to another by means of bodily contact. The common geographic territory considered being mostly influenced by divergent
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since 1976. It originated from the Ebola river; hence the name of the disease. Most recently there has been a major outbreak in the disease and has spread nationally which is the main cause for its emergence. Although there are no cures yet for this viral disease‚ by giving awareness‚ there will be more caution and less people getting diagnosed with Ebola. It has been theorized that the transmission of the outbreak began through fruit bats of the Pteropodidae family which are natural Ebola hosts. It
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Sandra Alexander The Hot Zone: A Scary Truth Richard Preston weaves a true tale about a chilling story of an Ebola virus (A disease-causing agent smaller than a bacterium‚ consisting of a shell made of proteins and membranes and a core containing DNA or RNA. A virus depends on living cells in order to replicate.) outbreak that occurs in a suburban Washington‚ D.C. laboratory in 1989. In this laboratory‚ monkeys being used in scientific experiments quickly sicken and die due to a filovirus
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Ebola is the name of a group of viruses belonging to the genus Ebolavirus‚ family Filoviridae‚ and for the disease that these viruses cause‚ Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever. Ebola‚ and its close relative Marburg are unique in the microbiological world in that they are the only viruses that are long and stretched‚ resembling pieces of string or as "spaghetti that had spilled onto the floor‚" as stated by author Richard Preston of the non-fictional book "The Hot Zone." that a sample of Ebolavirus and Marburgvirus
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PROTECTING ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE UNDER VIRAL ATTACKS by Raghunathan Srinivasan A Thesis Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Science ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY August 2007 PROTECTING ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE UNDER VIRAL ATTACKS by Raghunathan Srinivasan has been approved July 2007 Graduate Supervisory Committee: Partha Dasgupta‚ Chair Charles Colbourn Aviral Shrivastava ACCEPTED BY THE GRADUATE COLLEGE ABSTRACT Computers are an important part
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Exercise 1: Human Behavior and The 1995 Ebola Outbreak In Zaire 1. In different cultures‚ people have different traditions. Most of which seem pretty harmless‚ unless a virus is introduced amongst the population. In the film‚ the Ebola virus was spread unintentional in 3 main ways: handshaking‚ burial rituals‚ and selling and eating infected animal meat. When people greet each other in Zaire‚ a handshake is usually the method that is used. However with the Ebola outbreak‚ handshaking spread the
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Plot Outline: Ebola is very much a hardy virus that can live outside of the human body‚ unlike HIV. It can be found in trace amounts in tears‚ blood‚ and even on the surface of the skin. The virus operates by attacking the vital organs‚ causing massive bleeding internally and externally. There is no cure‚ no treatment‚ and death usually occurs within 10 days. A close relative of Ebola was first seen in Europe in 1967 when workers at a pharmaceutical plant in Marburg‚ Germany began to mysteriously
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Jeffrey Boateng This more of an assignment then an essay to help people who are reading the Hot zone. Diction: choice of words Tone: The attitude of the speaker or writer as revealed in the choice of vocabulary. The Hot Zone by Richard Preston General Tones: Caution‚ fear‚ and uncertainty Example one: Once a virus hits the net‚ it can shoot anywhere in a day-Paris‚ Tokyo‚ New York‚ Los Angles‚ wherever planes fly. Charles Monet and the life form inside him had entered the net. Richard Preston
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