The Ebola Epidemic: Drishna Perumal

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.

This disease can lead to severe pneumonia, diarrhea, encephalitis and in a worst case scenario could even cause death.

Systemic and can quickly become life-threatening with organ failure, including reduced blood pressure and heart failure 1 2

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.

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Woman and men had swelling in the groin or under armpit, it was the size of an egg. This infected area would have pus or blood is oozing out. Some of the other effects are vomiting, diarrhea, aches in the body, or having a fever. After the symptoms change black or purple spots are found on the body. Sooner or later the person with the disease will die.

The virus can kill people that get affected “They’re exposed to some kind of infection that quickly spreads throughout the purge and causes death within hours”(Shoyer, Scott). The virus kills people and create creatures, which is what the next paragraph will take about.

RSV comes into the airway epithelium from the apical side only and aims to destroy the ciliated epithelia cells (4). Then RSV buds and releases the virus from the apical surface (4).

The virus on entering the body will target specific cells such as those of the liver, immune system and the endothelial lining of the blood vessels.

Katressa was not sure where she contacted the virus, since none of her friends had it. She was also told that once you have the virus, you will have the virus for the rest of your live. But, once infected, you will not contract it again if exposed at a later date. And that other complications may occur. These complications included tonsillitis (swelling and infection of the tonsils), splenomegaly (enlargement of the spleen), hepatomegaly or an abnormal enlargement of the liver.

Some symptoms or defining characteristics of this disease are abdominal pain, pale skin tone, bloody bowel movements, even small bruises around the mouth and nose. There are more general symptoms such as vomiting, fever, or confusion but those could be relevant in many other flus or viruses. However I mention them because when added to

Consequently, as I dug up pages upon pages of Information about this Virus, my interest shifted from this one species of living Organisms to the physicochemical and biochemical processes that occur within living Organisms and that prompts complexity of life. In my last few months of secondary Education, although Ebola Virus

With over ten thousand people dead, the Ebola virus is a very serious and dangerous virus found mostly in some parts of Africa. The Ebola virus is a filovirus that can be deadly if left untreated, and one of the first cases of Ebola was documented at the Ebola River in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Ebola virus can be transmitted from person to person in several ways, one way is by having contact through the skin or through bodily fluids with someone who has the virus (WebMD, 2014). The virus is first obtained by being in contact with an infected animal. Then once a person has been infected by the virus, they spread it to other people. The symptoms of the Ebola virus is reported to be similar to the flu in the early days of being infected.

Ebola has been a major cause for the deaths in some parts of Africa in which all genders and all ages are involved. Ebola is an infectious and genetically fatal disease marking by severe fever and internal bleeding. It can be spread through infected body fluids by a filovirus. Ebola causes the world to be in shock both physically and mentally. This disease is placed as one of the deadliest that the world has experienced in all its years. Actually this disease is ranked in the top 5 in the deadliest in the world. This disease is so deadly that if it spreads it will memolice with the world in no time. Ebola can be the game changer in the world survival if this one is not treated like it is supposed to be treated.

The fastest communication of the virus to humans were reported in turkey. Simultaneously, 1.5 million birds were killed to contain the virus. The symptoms of such a disease that the temperature of your body dramatically starts to increase followed by a cough. Then the host (humans) starts to experience a difficulty in breathing and a severe pain in the stomach most of it ends with diarrhea – a disease happens when our digestive system are not able any more to absorb liquids and minerals. A further exposure to the virus can lead to shock, the respiratory system stop working completely, and the other vital organs like liver fail to function normally and eventually death may occur.