The Ebola Virus Disease

In the short story “I Go Along” by Richard Peck the character Jene is explored. When he takes a class trip to go see a poet, he interacts with Sharon Willis which starts to change his views on himself and others. Gene’s character is fixed on his views, and how he reads his fellow classmates and others. At the beginning he's unconfident in his own identity and a follower; “Everybody in the class put up their hands. I mean everybody. I put up mine. I go along.” He wants the least amount of attention on him and camouflages in with his crowd of classmates. Gene is genuinely intrigued by the idea of attending a poetry reading when, “...at five-thirty (he) has no idea

Locate, cite (quote or paraphrase) and share a reliable information source(s) that discusses a degenerative disease experienced at a higher rate among Black/African Americans (vs. American majority statistics)

Both the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights have similar stances on the separation of church and state. The Bill of Rights guarantees that the government are prohibited from taking away fundamental rights such as the freedom of religion, in the third article. It also states that every U.S. citizen has the right to practice their own religion or no religion at all, without needing the permission of Congress. In Article Six of the Constitution, there is one particular statement that affects every office in the nation, both federal and state. It means no public position requires any kind of religious belief to be in one, as there should be no preferences given to religion. The two national documents allow everyone to exercise their natural

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.

(National Geographic)” Also, healthcare workers could potentially not want to go to Africa to help if they are going to be quarantined on arrival back in their home country. Frieden says, “health care workers might be unwilling to help out in West Africa, making it more likely the disease will keep landing on American shores. (National Geographic)” Over the short term, some cases of Ebola in the united states could be prevented, CNN states, but for the long term, it could back fire if highly trained personnel have more incentive not to go to west Africa to help with the disease. Dr. John Carlson spent four weeks working with Ebola patients and says that, “healthcare workers already sacrifice their time to those who need it, and that quarantining them might seem like a punishment, discouraging people like him to do it again. (CNN)” Some individuals also claim that Ebola is no worse than other illnesses, such as Human Immunodeficiency Virus, HIV, or bacterial infections. They claim that at one point in time these illnesses had once sparked a fire of fear in hearts of people around the world and that today are looked at as not as serious when people are still also affected by these diseases daily and also die from them daily.

B. These symptoms occur two – 21 days after the infection. C. The symptoms progress to vomiting, diarrhea, impaired kidney and liver function, and sometimes internal and external bleeding. D. There are currently no treatments for

Ebolavirus is responsible for highly lethal hemorrhagic fever. Like all viruses, it must reproduce its various components and assemble them in cells in order to reproduce infectious virions and perpetuate itself. To generate infectious Ebolavirus, a viral genome-protein complex called the nucleocapsid (NC) must be produced and transported to the cell surface, incorporated into virions, and then released from cells. To further our understanding of the Ebolavirus life cycle, we expressed the various viral proteins in mammalian cells and examined them ultrastructurally and biochemically. Expression of nucleoprotein alone led to the formation of helical tubes, which likely serve as a core for the NC. The matrix protein VP40 was found to be critical

got sick and died. This outbreak infected 318 with a death rate of 93% (Le

The outbreak of Ebola virus in West Africa, a strain never seen in the region, is scary indeed. To hear about medical professionals, who are supposed to know more about Ebola than anyone else, fall helplessly in the line of duty is very frightening. Ebola is another of Africa’s brand-killers. And it seems to take the shine away from the story of a continent that has been rising unprecedentedly in a post-financial crisis era - where economic growth is in short supply. Even the historic US-Africa Summit and its outcome were overshadowed by the world-wide panic over the viral contagion. Two African Heads of States of the affected countries even declined an opportunity to take pictures with the first American President of African blood—

Someone with the virus is easily recognizable. Symptoms include, a fever of 101.5 degrees Fahrenheit. The infected may also experience severe headaches, muscle pains, vomiting, stomach pains, diarrhea, and unexplained bleeding or bruising. A strange symptom of the virus is blood shot eyes and hiccuping. Vomiting blood or urine laced with blood is also common, however, bleeding usually isn’t how victims die. Instead the common death is from organ failure, This is caused by blood vessels deep in the body that begin to leak fluid causing blood pressure to lower so much that the organs slowly begin to fail. Symptoms of the virus may start after two to 21 days after infection. A exponential

Poor infrastructure in African countries has exacerbated the problem as well, as hospitals are too ill-equipped and ill-staffed to deal with these sorts of outbreaks. Some hospitals have even been unable to contain its patients, with infected individuals wandering away from the medical facilities or crawling out into the streets to die.

Often people are reluctant to become involved in a situation unless it directly affects them. This paper will prove that the Ebola virus is a serious problem facing the world’s population. In the United States today, we are not at risk for being infected; however, it is better to be prepared for the worst than to be caught off guard. AIDS was the first of these African viruses to escape the wilds of the Third World and harm others in the world. AIDS was ignored for too long before it began its' global rampage.

The Ebola outbreak that started in Guinea in March 2014 and that spread to Sierra Leone and Liberia later, is not the first Ebola outbreak in human history. In fact, 25 Ebola outbreaks were recorded since the virus was first discovered in 1976. But this year’s outbreak has been the severest one because of its widely geographic spread[ http://time.com/47018/ebola-breaks-out-in-west-africa/] and the lack of health infrastructure in those three countries hardest hit. Although in February, the United States and 28 other countries announced the Global Health Security Agenda, one of whose goals was to prevent and reduce the likelihood of outbreaks, the US response in the early months was not enough given the size of the disaster.[ http://ic.galegroup.com.ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu/ic/ovic/NewsDetailsPage/NewsDetailsWindow?failOverType=&query=&prodId=OVIC&windowstate=normal&contentModules=&display-query=&mode=view&displayGroupName=News&limiter=&u=psucic&currPage=&disableHighlighting=false&displayGroups=&sortBy=&source=&search_within_results=&p=OVIC&action=e&catId=&activityType=&scanId=&documentId=GALE%7CA382718305]

In 2014, an outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease occurred in a number of West African countries, with most cases confined to Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. The highly contagious disease, spread via contact with infected body fluid, including mucus, saliva, tears, sweat, breast milk, and semen, infected more than 28,000 people. Although generally contained, the effects of the epidemic were felt both directly and indirectly in the United States and many other developed countries due to the limited education on Ebola. Since October 2014, the African epidemic has been abated, and global efforts have shifted from crisis response to development of preventative strategies. In the United States, researchers, clinicians, and other decision makers focus

Also, a person becomes infected in an area where the virus occurs naturally and then travels elsewhere. After an incubation period of 7–10 days, Range 3–21 days, the patient abruptly develops a fever. The