Ebola

Ebola is the better-known member of a small family of viruses known as Filoviridae. The other lesser-known member is Marburg. The Ebola virus has five known subtypes, four of which are highly pathogenic to humans. The fifth, Ebola Reston Virus was first isolated in a group of primates that had been imported from the Philippines to a research laboratory in Reston, Virginia. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, within weeks, the same virus was isolated during similar outbreaks

The Ebola Virus is a very sensitive subject at this time, with an outbreak within Western Africa (Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Liberia most affected) causing panic and fear among many countries across the world. Within this essay, I aim to cover the transmission of the virus and how it replicates within the host cells, whilst briefly looking at the symptoms and dangers of the disease. The Ebola Virus is the most famous Virus from the group known as the Filoviruses (known for their filamentous

Ebola, once transmitted to a human is referred as Ebola hemorrhagic fever, is an uncommon viral infection that deliberately targets every part of the human body with the exception of the skeletal system. When this lethal disease enters the host, it will first cause pain throughout the body and dramatically increase the body's temperature. Next, internal and external bleeding tends to occur, specifically form the face. After that, it will simply destroy the bodily tissue that holds the host's organs

conflicting interests, hence, most times inefficient. The Ebola outbreak in 2014 had proven otherwise. The 2014 Ebola outbreak surpassed that of the previous years; it affected mostly West Africa and most especially Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, but eventually found its way to certain countries in the west (U.S, U.K, and Italy

The source of the Ebola virus is not completely known. Research has pointed to several possible carriers of the virus. "Among the suspected reservoirs for Ebola are bats, primates, rodents, and insects that inhabit tropical forests in Africa"(1). It is initially spread to people by coming into contact with body fluids or waste of one of the carriers and then it is transferred from person to person very easily and very quickly through similar avenues(2). The first documented case in human history

listed metaphors and narrative conventions, the danger or risk is foreign – an alien element – intruding in a previously balanced and healthy organism (or society) and attacking it. As we determined previously, western societies were well aware of Ebola and its dangers but panic seems to have only struck once the disease made it overseas. Sociologist Deborah Lupton gives a rather adequate insight as to why this is: in her book entitled Risk, she found that people, by nature, tend to overestimate risk

The narrative now flashes back to 1976 and the outbreak of two strains of the Ebola virus, beginning with Yu G. A quiet storekeeper in the town of Nzara, Sudan, Yu G. dies at home from Ebola and is buried in a traditional Zande funeral. It is unclear where or how Yu G. becomes infected, but a few days after his death, two of his co-workers develop similar symptoms. One of these men, known as P.G., has a wide circle of friends and exposes many people in the town. Before long, the Sudan strain of the

Ebola (EBO) virus has made its presence around April and May in 1995 (7). The virus, at first, was medically diagnosed as epidemic dysentery but was suspected by other medical providers to something else (7). The specimens of the patients were then sent to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in which was diagnosed as Ebola viral hemorrhagic fever, to conform their suspicion (7). This was the first large outbreak of the virus and has since then been a topic of study because of

Thwarting an infectious disease from getting out of control necessitates efforts that identify it as soon as it first presents itself. The Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) claimed its first victims as early as December 2013 in West Africa yet was never suspected until later around February 2014. This is because EVD had never been seen in West Africa. Since its discovery, the virus that causes the disease had only been virulent in sporadic outbreaks elsewhere in Africa –specifically the DRC (1995 and 2012)

"You have to admire its simplicity. It's one billionth our size and it's beating us." - - Spoken by Colonel Sam Daniels, a character in the fictional movie about Ebola, Outbreak. The Ebola virus is the most feared virus of our time. What exactly is Ebola? Ebola is a viral hemorrhagic fever actually named after the River Ebola in Zaire, Africa, where it was first discovered. It belongs to a genus of ribonucleic viruses called filoviruses, under the family Filofiridae, which are characterized