Filoviridae

diameter and can grow up to 14,000 nm long (TKH Virology Notes Ebola, n.d.). The Ebola virus was first discovered in Sudan, near a river by the same name. The virus was first discovered in 1976, and is still around today. The ebola virus is in the Filoviridae family and the Ebolavirus genus. There are five known strains of the Ebola virus, they are Tai Forest ebolavirus, Reston ebolavirus, Bundibugyo ebolavirus, Sudan ebolavirus and Zaire ebolavirus (Ebola virus disease, n.d.). The Ebola virus is believed

tens of thousands of chimpan-zees, duikers and gorillas. It those areas it is a great threat to the wildlife.3 EBOV belongs to the order of the nonsegmented negative-sense (NNS)RNA type viruses, the Mononegavirales and it is part of the family Filoviridae. EBOV is a member of the genus Ebolavirus. This genus has five distinct species: Bundibugyo ebolavirus, Zaire ebolavirus, Su-dam ebolavirus, Taï Forest ebola virus and Reston ebolavirus.4 The Ebola virus should not be confused

results in death or survival with no disabilities so there are no other methods of prevention to discuss. The primary issue with EVD is that the locations in which this disease usually appears is not prepped for the rapid treatment and management of many of these cases. The patients are hypovolemic, vomiting, require constant aid to prevent hyper-perfusion of the organs and all the while require PPE (Bah et al., 2015). Not only is this strenuous on any health-care personnel, it requires intense staffing

Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), formally known as Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever, which is a severe, often fatal illness in humans. This virus is transmitted to people from wild animals and spread in human population through human transmission. The Ebola Virus Disease case rate is about 50% and they have varied from 25% to 90% in the past outbreaks. Ebola Virus causes an acute, serious illness which is often fatal if it is not treated, the virus first appeared in 1976 in 2 simultaneous outbreaks. One in which

In 2014, the world was hit by a very devastating blow. There was an incident of a deadly disease, a disease most people in the world knew close to nothing about. It took the world by surprise exposing many gaps and loopholes in healthcare. It brought the healthcare community to its feet; the whole world stood at attention, the world was in a state of monumental fear (Acharya, 2014). Emergency measures were instituted and everyone came together in a joint battle against the worst and largest outbreak

Background Information: Diseases have emerged and reemerged throughout history, claiming thousands of lives. The infectious and/or contagious nature of a disease allows for its rapid spread throughout a population, and thus, able to escalate quickly and claim a large portion of the population before they are contained. Diseases such as Ebola or AIDS are usually fatal, and their lack of available treatment fill people with dread and fear. The most recent outbreak of Ebola in 2014 experienced by the

The Ebola virus is in Group V, the Mononegavirales order, the Filoviridae family, and the Zaire ebolavirus species. According to Wikipedia, the Ebola virus is one of the five known viruses that is in the Ebolavirus genus, and along with four out of the five known viruses in the Ebolavirus genus, it causes a very serious

NAME: DANIEL DANAE STUDENT NUMBER: 101420/1419102 MAJOR: LIFE SCIENCES (BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE) COURSE: MICROBIOLOGY TOPIC: MECHANISM OF TRANSMISSION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES (EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE) INTRODUCTION: A disease is a change of functioning in the body that makes it not to function properly. It is a disorder in the normal function of the body. There are different types of diseases such as Ebola virus disease, cholera as well as other types. Infection is the incursion of a microorganism to a cell

History The Ebola Haemorrhagic Fever is a deadly disease caused by five different strains of the Ebola viruses. Whilst the Reston virus only causes illness in animals, the rest cause severe illness in humans and animals (Stanford Edu, 2014). The Ebola virus was discovered in 1976 in the Congolese rainforest in central Africa, by a young Belgian scientist named Peter Piot (BBC News, 2014). Piot discovered the first known strain of Ebola, known as Ebola – Sudan (SUDV). Ebola-Sudan was discovered in

design and implement projects that will control and reduce the spread of Ebola. The Ebola virus belongs to a family of negative-strand RNA viruses called Filoviridae, which are classified as Zoonotic diseases 2. Zoonotic diseases are caused by animals that contain the virus within them. There are a total of four Ebola species grouped as Filoviridae that can cause the