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Ebola Zaire Ebola Virus
1,314 wordsTo: , AtCrossADH, EMOSSELL Imagine, if you will, you have just gotten back from a great vacation! You got to see all the African hot spots, and Zaire was your favorite! The people were so nice! They let you taste their food, hunt their land, even get a body ready for burial. Considered a very high honor for an outsider! You are home now and have a slight headache but after a great vacation like that who care? You take a few aspirins, get your film developed, pick up a few thing from the super ma...
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Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever Ebola Reston
1,289 wordsThe Ebola Virus is the common name for several strains of virus, three of which are known to cause hemorrhagic fever in humans, which is characterized by massive bleeding and destruction of internal tissues. Named for the Ebola River in Zaire, Africa, where the virus was first identified, the Ebola virus belongs to the family Filoviridae. Three strains of Ebola virus that are often fatal to humans have been identified. Named for the areas in which the first recognized outbreaks took place, these...
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Ebola Zaire Ebola Sudan
1,020 wordsWe dont really know what Ebola has done in the past, and we dont know what it might do in the future. (p. 49) According to Eugene Johnson, a civilian virus hunter, specializing in Ebola, the essence of the virus itself is one whose existence is still unintelligible to humans. The knowledge of the nature of this virus, as well as Marburg the gentle sister of the three filo virus sisters (Ebola Zaire, Ebola Sudan, and Marburg), remains questionable today. In his book, The Hot Zone, Richard Preston...
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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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Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Ebola Reston
1,212 wordsIn the year 1976, Ebola climbed out of its unknown hiding place, and caused the death of 340 people. Fear gripped the victims' faces, and uncertainty tortured their minds. The people of Zaire waited outside clinics, churches and in their homes for a treatment of the horrible disease, but there was no cure. They were forced to watch people die, hoping that they would be saved from the violent death of the Ebola virus. From the year of 1976 to the present date of 1996, researchers have searched fo...
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Internal And External Ebola Virus
814 wordsOne of the deadliest viruses known to man could quite possibly be the virus that lies dormant in Africa called Ebola. The Ebola virus is a member of a family of RNA viruses known as filo viruses. Ebola made its first human contact in 1976, which during this outbreak caused the death of 340 people. Because the outbreak was in Zaire, This particular strain was called Ebola Zaire. Since there isnt a cure for Ebola, people were left to die, without hope for survival. After this major outbreak, resea...
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Ebola Zaire Ebola Virus
765 wordsThe Ebola virus belongs to the family Filoviridae. The Ebola virus is characterized by massive bleeding and destruction of internal tissues. The virus is named after the Ebola river in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Africa where the virus was first found. Three types of the Ebola virus have been found. They are named after the places in which they were discovered. Ebola Zaire, Ebola-Sudan, Ebola-Tai forest. The strain Ebola Zaire is the most deadly of the three. The Ebola viruses are mainly f...
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Ebola And Marburg Viruses
2,407 wordsEbola and Marburg Viruses Ebola and Marburg Viruses: Description Ebola is a member of negative-stranded RNA virus family Filoviridae. Ebola and Marburg viruses (filo viruses) are very similar in density, morphology, and odium dodecyl sulfate - polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) profile. As far as these particles are pleomorphism, it means that they can exist in many shapes. The Marburg virus is the causative agent of Marburg hemorrhagic fever. It relates to Ebola, and was first discov...
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Ebola Zaire Hot Zone
677 wordsBook Report: The Hot Zone by Richard Preston In October of l 989, Macaque monkeys, housed at the Reston Primate Quarantine Unit in Reston, Virginia, began dying from a mysterious disease at an alarming rate. The monkeys, imported from the Philippines, were to be sold as laboratory animals. Twenty-nine of a shipment of one hundred died within a month. Dan Dalgard, the veterinarian who cared for the monkeys, feared they were dying from Simian Hemorrhagic Fever, a disease lethal to monkeys but harm...
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Ebola Zaire Ebola Virus
1,560 wordsThe Ebola Virus Descriptions of the Ebola virus: The Ebola virus is a complicating object (viruses not being considered living creatures, so it is an object). Named after the Ebola River, the Ebola virus particle contains seven different proteins of which only three have vaguely known purposes. While the exact function of the other four proteins are still unknown, we do know that they attack immune system. Ebola is known to jump hosts and known to be lethal to both monkeys and humans. Similar to...
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Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
1,964 wordsIn the world today, there are many known deadly viruses, but few present as great a threat as Ebola, the virus that causes Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever. Key factors in understanding Ebola HF include: Its history, plan of attack, and the diagnosis and treatment of the disease. The Ebola virus can, and usually does cause a disease called Ebola hemorrhagic fever, which is a Viral hemorrhagic fever. According to the proceedings of the 4 th National Symposium on Biosafety, the clinical definition for Vira...
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Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever Ebola Reston
2,699 wordsThe Ebola Virus is the common name for several strains of virus, three of which are known to cause hemorrhagic fever in humans, which is characterized by massive bleeding and destruction of internal tissues. Named for the Ebola River in Zaire, Africa, where the virus was first identified, the Ebola virus belongs to the family Filoviridae. Three strains of Ebola virus that are often fatal to humans have been identified. Named for the areas in which the first recognized outbreaks took place, these...
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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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Ebola Zaire Internal Organs
1,618 wordsImagine Hot Zone Hot Zone Imagine walking into a tiny village in Africa, suffering and dying from some unknown virus. As you approach the huts you hear the wails of pure agony from the afflicted tribe members. Coming closer, you smell the stench of vomit mixed with the bitter smell of warm blood. People inside lay dying in pools of their own vital fluids, coughing and vomiting up their own liquefied internal organs; their faces emotionless masks loosely hanging from their skulls, the connective ...
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Exposed To The Virus Ebola Zaire
1,027 wordsReston Maryland which is a suburb of Washington DC. and the second major area is in Kenya Africa. The story takes place in the 1980 s. Main Characters: Since this story is a true story there is no one character that is a main character. The author does not create the story around any one main character so Ill just list every character I can remember from the book. 1. Charles Monet: He was the first host to the deadly ebola virus breakout in Africa. He was 56 years old and was kind of a loner acc...
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Exposed To The Virus Ebola Zaire
1,041 wordsThe The Hot Zone Setting: The setting g takes place in two major places. Reston Maryland which is a suburb of Washington DC. and the second major area is in Kenya Africa. The story takes place in the 1980 s. Main Characters: Since this story is a true story there is no one character that is a main character. The author does not create the story around any one main character so Ill just list every character I can remember from the book. 1. Charles Monet: He was the first host to the deadly ebola ...
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Centers For Disease Control Ebola Viruses
1,434 wordsThe Hot Zone This non-fiction book was written in 1994. It covers the time period between 1967 and 1963. Its about deadly viruses, particularly strains of the Ebola virus and the Marburg virus, and tells how easily they can be spread and how quickly and violently they can kill. Its a disturbing book because there is no known cure for Ebola. The book started by telling the story of Charles Monet, a worker in a sugar factory that lived in Africa near Mount Elgon. He contracted the Marburg virus an...
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Ebola Zaire Filo Viruses
1,026 wordsThe Ebola Virus The Ebola virus is one of the most deadly viruses that man kind has ever seen. In clinical cases it has a mortality rate of 50 %- 90 %. The Viruses has many different strains including Marburg, Ebola Zaire, Reston and Sudan, each named after the location of their first clinical case. They each cause different symptoms and different mortality rates. Non the less, the collection of Ebola viruses at the present, pose a serious health threat to people in undeveloped countries and pot...
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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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