Committee: World Health Organization Topic: Combatting the Ebola Outbreak in West Africa Country: Brazil Delegate: Andrew Felder School: Houston Academy for International Studies The Ebola virus started
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The book begins with a French Man‚ nicknamed Charles Monet‚ visiting the Kitum Cave*. A few days after‚ he begins to suffer from symptoms such as vomiting‚ red eye‚ and back pain. He is later taken to the Nairobi Hospital*. There‚ he goes into a coma and dies. Shem Musoke was infected by exposure to Charles’ blood and vomit. Musoke developed symptoms from the filovirus* and survived. This particular filovirus was found to be the Marburg virus*. Dr. Nancy Jaax had been promoted to the Level 4* Biosafety
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Summary Richard Preston’s Hot Zone is a horrific narration of the origin of filoviruses and their encounter with humans. These viruses include Marburg virus (MARV)‚ Ebola virus (EBOV) and Sudan virus (SUDV). They are also known as Biosafety Level 4 agents because they are extremely dangerous to humans and have no treatments or cure. Section 1: The Shadow of Mount Elgon This section details Charles Monet’s visit to Kitum cave‚ which is located in Mount Elgon‚ Kenya. During this trip‚ Monet
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In The Hot Zone by Richard Preston and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot‚ both authors suggest that globalization is both powerful and dangerous‚ so dangerous that it can sometimes cause irreplaceable damage‚ but can also do good things. The Hot Zone shows that Ebola can spread worldwide and have devastating effects. Preston states that if Ebola manages to spread beyond central Africa‚ then it will be all over the world‚ from New York to Paris‚ but “we never knew it.”(99)
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Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever (7th grade report) Ebola is a severe and often fatal disease in humans‚ and non-human primates‚ such as monkeys‚ gorillas‚ and chimpanzees. Scientists don’t know exactly where the virus was first originated. However they do believe that the virus is zoonotic‚ or animal born. They believe an animal host that is native to the African continent maintains it. A similar host would be monkeys associated with Ebola-Reston. Cases of Ebola Virus have been found in Congo
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Many people have heard of Cancer‚ AIDS‚ and small pox all which can be deadly and are considered by most people who haven’t heard of Ebola or Marburg as the deadliest of diseases and viruses. Imagine a virus that killed nine out of every ten people it infected and it was contagious through airborne particles. Even prior to learning about the symptoms of this type of virus it already sounds like a nightmare. The virus is called Ebola and a man by the name of Richard Preston wrote a full length book
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I would like to say something about ebola disease before tell what ebola victims‚ their families‚ and neighbors feel or think about ebola crisis. Ebola disease is caused by ebola virus. This deadly virus is very potent‚ and it attacks human’s immune system offensively . It soon spreads all body organ within a day or two days. Then the ebola patients either die within days or live if they are cured. Many people who were contaminated ebola virus died. For example‚ Thomas Eric Duncan who was a Liberian
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Chikungunya is a viral disease spread by the bite of infected Aedes Aegypti mosquitoes. It causes fever‚ severe joint pain and rash on the body. Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is an arbovirus i.e. it is an arthropod borne virus and is a member of the genus Alphavirus‚ in the family Togaviridae. The first outbreak of the disease was seen in the year 1952‚ in the Makonde plateau‚ along the border between Tanzania and Mozambique. The disease occurs predominantly in Africa‚ Asia and the Indian
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Rhinovirus Sierra Smith Pd: 2 1/17/13 “Human Rhinoviruses are the most common viral infective agents against humans and are the predominant cause of the worldly known common cold. Rhinovirus infection proliferates in temperatures between thirty to thirty-five degrees Celsius. This may also be why the Rhinovirus occurs mostly in the nose.” “It is a species in the genus enterovirus of the picorativiridae family of viruses.” Shockingly‚ there are ninety-nine recognized types of
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Research Report 1: What are the differences between bacterial‚ viral fungal and parasitic infections? How is each treated? A bacteria is a living cell organism that can survive inside our body and other non living objects as well. There are both good and bad bacterias and the good bacteria is known to helps fight against the bad bacteria that makes it’s way into our bodies. According to a www.righthealth.com‚ less then 1% of bacteria is actually harmful to us. In fact‚ we couldn’t survive
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