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Task 2 C826 Task 2 Western Governor’s University
Task 2 A. Select one of the following communicable diseases that has had an outbreak across international borders: • Ebola virus B. Describe the outbreak of the disease selected in part A, including each of the following: • name of disease • countries involved • date outbreak was discovered • dates disease reached each involved country I am performing Task 2 on the Ebola virus. This primarily a disease of Central Africa (Democratic Republic of Congo) although laboratory monkeys from the Philippines transported to Texas in 1996 has contributed to the spread. The first detection of the virus was recorded in 1976 in Zaire and neighboring Sudan. Another human outbreak took place in Kikwit, Zaire in 1995. Multiple countries in West Africa experienced the largest outbreak to date beginning in February 2014. The countries hit the hardest during this outbreak were Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea. Between September and October 2014, a man from Liberia traveled to Texas and was treated and passed away in the hospital with confirmed Ebola virus. Four US citizens tested positive for the disease, 2 healthcare workers that had been taking care of the patient and two missionary workers in Liberia, recovered from the disease. (Ghayourmanesh, Magill's Medical Guide, 2023) 1. Analyze the epidemiological determinants and risk factors associated with the outbreak. The Ebola virus has created challenges in finding it’s “primary natural reservoir.” Birds, rodents, other animal and insects were investigated as the source of the virus by investigators and epidemiologists from WHO in 1995. The results were inconclusive, except a link between primates and virus infection in humans was established. It has also been suspected that fruit bats could be the natural source. (Ghayourmanesh, Magill's Medical Guide, 2023) 2. Discuss the route of transmission of the selected disease.
Task 2 “The virus targets ‘lipid rafts,’ tiny fat platforms that float atop the membranes of human cells.” These so called rafts become assembly platforms for the virus in the way of making new particles and an exit point (Ghayourmanesh, Magill's Medical Guide, 2023). The virus is transmitted through contact with body fluids. An infected animal is believed to be the source and is picked up by a person that triggers the outbreak. 3. Discuss how an outbreak of the selected disease would impact your community at a systems level (e.g., the functioning of schools, local government, businesses, hospitals) if an outbreak were to occur in your community. If there was an outbreak of Ebola virus in my community, I would imagine that there would be protocols put into place that are similar to the protocols that we experienced during COVID. Functioning of school would likely transition to a distance learning type of situation again. Local Governments would likely cease to operate outside of minimum requirements. Hospitals would likely implement stringent isolation protocols. 4. Explain what the reporting protocol would be if an outbreak of the selected disease were to occur in your community. Medical personnel would report confirmed and suspected cases to the Public Health department for the appropriate county. 5. Discuss two strategies (e.g., patient education strategies, community education strategies) that you would recommend to prevent an outbreak of the selected disease in your community. Education would be a primary strategy that I would use as the method of transmission is through contact with infected bodily fluids. Proper education of hand hygiene as well as taking preventative measures with PPE in the event of potential contact with fluids. I would also educate about the challenges that have been faced with identifying a true host for the virus and that no true standardized treatment has been identified. I would also educate that the impact of the virus after the incubation period is devastating and extremely deadly.
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