Essay on The Marburg Hemorrhagic Fever Description

Viewing- will view information about the Yellow Fever during our internet workshop for our pre-reading activity.

The 1878 yellow fever epidemic in Memphis proved to be fatal, killing almost all who got infected. The disease traveled up from New Orleans infecting and killing many on its way. Memphis was going through reconstruction and was becoming the center for merchants and travelers. Furthermore, Memphis began to become overly populated only increasing the devastation that would be caused by the yellow fever. This was a confusing period were even medical professionals did not know where the disease came from or how they could to stop it. The epidemic caused panic and challenged the state government of Tennessee and made changes to it that are still in effect today.

As the disease progresses the pulse slows and weakens, bleeding of the gums, and bloody urine occur. In more severe, usually fatal cases, jaundice occurs, which is what the disease is named for. Jaundice is when the patient's skin turns yellow and is the final definitive test to detect yellow fever, although by that stage it is usually too late. In the rare cases where people recover from the disease, the person develops an immunity to the disease.

A small amount of patients recover from the disease and then get even worse symptoms of it. The high fever returns and the liver and kidneys are affected poorly. Bleeding can occur from the mouth, nose, stomach, or eyes. Vomiting can also occur and will be very painful. Those who enter the toxic state of the Yellow Fever disease die within 7-10 days.

Yellow fever is a virus that is usually found in South America and sub-Saharan Africa, where the virus is spread via mosquitoes. Symptoms of yellow fever often are not noticeable until four to six days after infection and vary in severity. The two phases of yellow fever include the acute phase and the toxic phase. In the acute phase, infected persons will experience mild symptoms such as fever and muscle pain. The acute phase lasts three to six days before evolving into the toxic phase. Symptoms of the toxic phase include high fever, bleeding from body orifices, jaundice, vomiting, and abdominal pain, and, eventually, the toxic phase becomes deadly, leading to low blood pressure, organ failure, shock, coma, or even death.

1] The fever caught us all by surprise, every day more citizens will become ill, we lost countless loved ones.It seemed like the end of the world though we did not surrender.We worked with each other and after a long wait, we brought Philadelphia back to its original state.

Nikolette Domann Domann 1 Mr. Bills 27 February, 2017 Pain and Suffering in “Fever 1793” In today's world, although sickness is still around, it's more contained because we have advances in technology. Worrying about getting sick, isn't a problem as much as it used to be. Yet when illness and disease struck Philadelphia in 1793. Mattie Cook struggles to stay happy in a universe full of sadness.

In his book, The Hot Zone, Richard Preston focuses on an outbreak of the Ebola virus in Reston, Virginia and in multiple places in Africa. To show how dangerous an outbreak can be, Preston examines, in great detail, various other viral outbreaks, including Marburg. Preston begins by talking about a fifty-six year old Frenchman named Charles Monet who ends up breaking out with a treacherous disease called Marburg. This wasn’t known until his doctor, Dr. Shem Musoke, ended up testing positive for Marburg after Monet`s infected blood went all over Doctor Musoke as Monet was dying. Musoke survived his outbreak with Marburg.

Hello, I’m Jane Wildhaber. I was a nurse during the Civil War. 1861 through 1865 were 4 long, horrible years, not because of the fighting. Many diseases were spread during this time due to cramped living conditions. One of the main diseases that us nurses worked with was typhoid fever. It is an acute intestinal infection caused by the salmonella typhi bacteria. It was spread by ingesting contaminated food and water or through close contact with someone already infected. It often afflicted soldiers in the elevated and more northern areas where Civil War armies fought and camped during the winter months. Typhoid Fever killed 81,360 Union soldiers, more than those who died of battle wounds. Symptoms are developed skin lesions called “rose spots”,

Fever 1793 is a novel about a fourteen-year-old girl named Matilda “Mattie” Cook who comes of age during the crazy yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia in 1793. Matilda’s family has a free slave because her husband paid to get her free and she is now saving up her money to free her husband. Then later her husband died. Matilda’s father died so Matilda, her mom, and her grandfather all live together. Matilda in the book is a normal teenager, for the most part at least. Matilda’s body is changing, some are because of hormones but not all, she does not like the sound of her mom’s voice, and she also has a crush on a boy named Nathaniel Benson. Nathaniel Benson is also a painter. The outbreak of yellow fever creates a dire situation,

Introduction: Over time we come to realize a lot of things we have to live life with right under our nose and right at our door step. one of the worst and on going things we have to deal with are Viruses. there are a wide range of different types of viruses, from ones that can kill you ,to ones that we don't even know we have, some are contagious , and some are not, and also the dreaded air borne viruses. One virus that is not commonly mentioned is Valley Fever.

They had came to the conclusion that there is no cure unless these are done following the encounter with the disease, Providing intravenous fluids and balancing electrolytes (body salts), Maintaining oxygen status and blood pressure and Treating other infections if they occur. They also made a list for prevention such as making sure to practice hygiene, self monitoring yourself for 21 days when coming from a country exposed to the virus and avoid areas and contact of treatment areas and people with the virus. In addition they made a list of ways to protect yourself from the disease mainly avoiding bodily

​The origin of the disease has been described at the end of the movie where we find out that a bat with a virus known as paramyxovirus that infects a pig. The pigs that are for human consumption were located near a forest that was being cut down. The pig in turn infects human beings of the earth through a chef. The agent which is very infectious is known as MEV-1 and its potential spread is estimated at 6-7 which suggests that the virus is highly transmissible from one person to the next. The virus has been compared to that of a smallpox virus with a mortality rate of up to 30%.

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.

The symptoms of yellow fever are varied. The virus has an incubation period of three to six days. The first symptoms will be fever, muscle pain, backache, headache, shivers, and loss of appetite, nausea, and vomiting. Frequently a slow pulse accompanies the fever. Most people improve after three to four days, however in 15% of the cases; patients go into a toxic phase within 24 hours. Fever reappears, and they exhibit jaundice and abdominal pain with vomiting. Bleeding occurs from the mouth, eyes, nose and stomach. The kidneys fail to produce urine, and blood appears in the vomit and feces. Half of the patients who experience this toxic phase die in ten to fourteen days. Due to the fact that many of these symptoms are identical to malaria and other diseases native to the areas, yellow fever is difficult to recognize. Blood tests can identify the virus, but may not be easily available to people in poorer developing countries.