Questionnaire about Ebola

Historically Ebola has had a serious impact on human health and hygiene and still does due to the fact of no vaccine or treatment being discovered, but thanks to improvements in scientific and medical knowledge the virus itself is now controllable.

There has been an acute worry roaming about the United States concerning the Ebola Outbreak. Originally, Ebola had never touched the United States until September of 2014. (4) The disease was originated from and named after a river in the Democratic of Congo. Since discovered, there have been known cases in Africa. There have been many very deadly cases of Ebola - the fatality rate is estimated to from about fifty to ninety percent. (2) To the United States, there had never been any worry about the disease until September twentieth of 2014. A man by the name of Thomas Eric Duncan boarded flight 822 from Liberia to Dallas, Texas. Flight 822 was where it all began. Nobody had any

In 2014 the United States was hit with a force far more deadly and dangerous than many threats received. The ebola virus took the world by storm after it was carried to the United States and spread by people who had visited West Africa. This virus was all the more deadly as it often took hours for any symptoms to occur. In this time the Center for Disease Control spent much time and many resources looking for answers to the many questions they had. Under the time constraint and scrutinizing public, they had to determine what ebola was, what it did and its effects on the general public.

Concluding Comment: if you notice any sign of these symptoms happening to you, don’t worry you’re not alone. Find someone to talk to and it may help you reduce the chance of getting it.

Hey! So I was reading this essay in the book that I bought for my English 101 class about how the horrible stuff you see on the news is COMPLETELY blown out of proportion sometimes and I just thought, “Wow, that’s completely true.” ‘Cause sometimes it’s just ridiculous! Like a couple years ago when there was that Ebola crisis and people TOTALLY freaked out! In reality, not many people in America got it and yet SO MANY PEOPLE were afraid of getting it. Like, what the hell? That’s stupid. People can be worried about the people who ARE getting it, but to actually think you’d contract it yourself is completely unrealistic! People seriously need to calm down.

The Ebola outbreak in West Africa appears to be gradually slowing down in Liberia, and the spread of preventative education in that region has been instrumental in the positive change. Some of this education has come in the form of government-commissioned music about the disease, but unfortunately, those efforts were seeing the wrong kind of impact for some time. Now, Liberian DJs and musicians have been raising awareness by taking a different approach.

This Ebola outbreak taught us many factors of public health that we simply ignore daily, like washing hands. These viruses are easily transmitted from person to person, through their blood or body-fluids. Therefore it is very important to research about our public health around us, for everyone’s health and future. The Ebola outbreak showed how the world is very ignorant of their public health. It is better for them to know all of these tragedies and educate themselve to prevent from any other outbreaks that will take place in the future. The plan to release more information and persuade to adjust West African culture will definitely make public healthier, view the world differently, and our future generations will learn the importance of learning

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The Ebola Virus is an extremely deadly virus found in Africa. There have been multiple outbreaks across Africa and one in the United States. The Ebola virus basically causes uncontrollable bleeding externally and internally. Then your organs become liquefied. This usually results in death(www.encyclopedia.com). The following report contains info on the characteristics and history of the Ebola Virus.

They, like humans, are believed to be infected directly from the natural reservoir or through a chain of transmission from the natural reservoir.” (3)

The causative agent is Filoviridae ebolavirus. There is no known reservoir for the virus, although scientists believe that fruit bats may be a possible reservoir because they harbor the disease without showing any signs or symptoms. Once infected with the virus the symptoms, usually do not appear for two to twenty-one days, which resembles the flu and often mistaken or misdiagnosed as the flu. However, as the disease progress, bleeding from the inside is noticeable through stool, coughing up blood, bleeding from the eyes and ears. Unfortunately, there is no treatment for this deadly infection and usually involves treating the symptoms as they appear. Nursing interventions are a major part in treating the patient and possible survival from this disease. Priority nursing interventions include, watching for any changes in the patient’s respiration rate and pattern, monitor the patient’s fluid and electrolyte imbalance, intake and output. Also, check and monitor complete blood count and coagulation studies for signs of blood loss and coagulopathy, monitor and test stools, urine and vomitus for blood; watch for bleeding. Teach the patient’s family about Ebola virus infection; monitor the patient’s family and other close contacts for fever and other signs of

Thank you for asking an interesting question regarding the cultural tradition of the other countries, which causing the spread of Ebola virus through unsafe burial culture before burying the body of their loved ones.

Carney & Weber (2015) discuss the impact the Ebola crisis had globally which leads to the conclusion that the recent Ebola crisis is a good example for the need to improve public health intelligence on a global level. Public health informatics has been implemented to provide the tools to manage this type of crisis in order to avoid failures. Failures were observed during the Ebola crisis which included process, policy and responsiveness. During the Ebola crisis the process failure developed due to how quickly the disease spread at a much faster pace than organizational readiness was prepared and delayed interventions such as diagnosing and quarantining to battle the disease effectively. An example of this failure would be patient zero reporting

The symptoms of Ebola are a fever, headache, joint and muscle aches, vomiting, stomach pain, sore throat, diarrhea, weakness and occasionally read eyes, rashes, hiccups, and internal and external bleeding and since these symptoms are not specific to Ebola, it is difficult to clinically diagnose and can often be confused with other viruses. The ELISA testing, short for enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, and virus isolation are a couple of examples of the types of laboratory testing that can be done to diagnose and Ebola patient. Because of how easily it can be transmitted, it is extremely difficult to treat and there is no approved, official treatment. As of now, there is not standard treatment but usually the patients are given fluids and oxygen, have their blood pressure monitored and other necessary treatment. To prevent transmission and spreading the virus, the doctors use extreme caution and wear head to toe protective gear and isolate the patient. Even though the Ebola virus is common in Africa, there has been no known outbreak in the United States. Another difficulty facing scientists and the treatment for Ebola is that the natural reservoir for the virus unknown. The natural reservoir of a virus is it’s long term host of the

Normally infecting fruit bats, the Ebola virus found a mutation allowing it to spread to humans. This virus is an acute and often fatal illness. This virus first erupted in two outbreaks in 1976 (one occurring in Nzara and Sudan, while the other occurred in a village near the Ebola river, where the virus takes its name.) The current outbreak, starting in West Africa with the potential to spread throughout the world,  is  larger and more complex than previous outbreaks. This virus has caused more deaths than all other past Ebola outbreaks combined. With approximately five people infected with the virus every hour in Sierra Leone alone, how far – and how fast – will the Ebola virus go?