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Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever Centers For Disease
1,257 words... freshly collected. A technique used to duplicate genetic material for study, called the polymerase chain reaction, is used to detect Ebola viral material in patient blood or tissues. When infection by the virus is suspected, local health officials institute strict barrier nursing procedures (such as the use of gowns, gloves, and masks) and usually call on experts from the World Health Organization (WHO), the Centers for Disease The Ebola virus has been classified by the CDC as Biosafety Leve...
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Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
1,511 words-- This report focuses on the origins of viruses and discusses the ebola virus in particular. -- This report was done to explain the origins of the ebola virus. This virus is one of the most deadly and horrific viruses known to man. To first understand the ebola virus we must first know a little bit about viruses themselves. Viruses themselves are extremely small pieces of matter. To see them with the naked there would have to be thousands of millions of single viruses joined together. Even some...
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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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Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever Ebola Viruses
1,226 wordsRunning head: MICROBIOLOGY MODULE 1 Microbiology Module I July 14, 2009 Microbiology Module I Microbiology Module 1 Part A Dear Editor, Few days ago I have read the article published in a local newspaper claiming that Edward Jenner was the greatest microbiologist of all time and made the greatest contribution to public health. Although I do honor Edward Jenner and do consider him to be one of the greatest microbiologists of the century, the importance of other microbiologists and their contribut...
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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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Ebola Viruses Hot Zone
342 wordsNature s Wrath Nature is our host and we are the parasite. In the book, The Hot Zone, Mr. Preston has explained one of the most feared things known to mankind, the virus. Even though as small as a needle head, it can kill humans faster than any weapon ever made. The actual virus itself, the host, and the organizations that spent years trying to figure out a cure are all examples shown in both The Hot Zone and the film, Outbreak. The actual virus itself went through multiple changes in the book, ...
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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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