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Find A Cure Ebola Reston
1,511 wordsHow would you like it if you died? Well that's what's happening to people in Africa. Their families die around them, spreading the deadly disease further into the ecosystem. Killing at will, this potent filoviruses sweeps through villages with reckless abandon, destroying anything and everything in it's way, and then just as mysteriously as it came, it disappears without a trace. Even with our modern technologies, we still don't really know too much about this death sentence disguised as a virus...
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University Of Michigan Guinea Pigs
1,455 wordsEbola Virus You think you have a case of the flu coming on. Nothing a few good nights' rest won't cure, you think. The next morning, your head throbs. Your skin aches. You feel feverish, and your chest hurts. You can't get out of bed. In the new few days, your fever skyrockets. You are disoriented and delirious. You throw up and notice the vomit is laced with blood. Next, you feel a liquid trickle out of your ears. With horror, you realize that it's more blood. Soon blood is seeping from your no...
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Quot New York Times Stop The Spread
1,247 wordsViruses have become of great concern all across the world in the last few decades. The most common and the most talked about killer virus is AIDS, a virus that starts out as HIV and then proceeds to develop into a immune breaker that ultimately kills its human host. So far, there is no cure for AIDS, and most unfortunately the numbers of deaths from AIDS only continues to grow. However, another virus has gained much public and national attention. That virus is called Ebola. It is thought that Eb...
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Zaire Or Sudan Infected With Ebola Virus
1,266 wordsEbola Virus or Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever is one of the most deadly viruses known to mankind. The strength and amount of time it lasts varies with different strains, but Ebola kills 50 to 90 % of the people it infects. As of July 1, 1995, 573 deaths have been reported due the disease. It was first identified in 1975 in Zaire, when a small village was almost entirely whipped out and 340 people ended up dead. Ebola is a member of a group of RNAviruses called Filoviruses. There are three known strains...
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Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
772 wordsThe Ebola virus, also know as Ebola hemorrhagic fever is a disease caused by viruses from four different families of viruses: 1) filo viruses, 2) arena virus, 3) flava virus, 4) bunyaviruses. The usual host for most of these viruses are rodents or anthropoids (such as ticks and mosquitoes). In some cases, such as the Ebola virus, the natural host for the virus is unknown. All forms of viral hemorrhagic fever begin with a fever and muscle aches. Depending on the particular virus, the disease can ...
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Needles And Syringes Ebola Zaire
1,097 wordsThe Ebola virus was discovered in 1976. It has four strains, each from a different geographic area, but all give their victims the same painful, often lethal symptoms. The Ebola virus and Marburg virus are the two known members of the Filo virus family. Marburg is a relative of the Ebola virus. The four strains of Ebola are Ebola Zaire, Ebola Sudan, Ebola Reston, and Ebola Tai. Each one is named after the location where it was discovered. These filo viruses cause hemorrhagic fever, which is actu...
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Third World Countries World Health Organization
2,965 wordsExotic diseases are the greatest threat to humanity. In a world where so many things are overlooked, diseases and epidemics are clearly overlooked and underestimated far more than any threat of nuclear war, global warming, or any comet headed for earth. Throughout history epidemics have plagued the earth several times resulting in a devastating number of deaths. As we approach the new millennium, many new and old diseases await humanity. What the world doesnt comprehend is that an epidemic can b...
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Didn Acute T Don Acute T
2,972 wordsExotic diseases are the greatest threat to humanity. In a world where so many things are overlooked, diseases and epidemics are clearly overlooked and underestimated far more than any threat of nuclear war, global warming, or any comet headed for earth. Throughout history epidemics have plagued the earth several times resulting in a devastating number of deaths. As we approach the new millennium, many new and old diseases await humanity. What the world doesnt comprehend is that an epidemic can b...
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Ebola Virus Infected Blood
489 wordsThe Ebola virus (family Filoviridae) responsible for a severe and often fatal haemorrhagic fever; outbreaks in primates as well as in humans have been recorded. The disease is characterised by extreme fever, rash, and profuse hemorrhaging. Fatality rates range from 50 to 90 percent. (1) Ebola was regarded as an epidemic in 1976 when it was discovered along the Ebola River in Zaire. The outbreaks moved throughout Zaire and The Sudan. In 1995 there was another epidemic in Zaire which resulted in h...
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Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever Washington D C
2,275 wordsThe Worlds Fight Against Microbes Many infectious diseases that were nearly eradicated from the industrialized world, and newly emerging diseases are now breaking out all over the world due to the misuse of medicines, such as antibiotics and antivirals, the destruction of our environment, and shortsighted political action and / or inaction. Viral hemorrhagic fevers are a group of diseases caused by viruses from four distinct families of viruses: filo viruses, arena viruses, flaviviruses, and bun...
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