Hemorrhagic fever

Running head: DENGUE FEVER & INDIA Dengue Fever in India Daniela Shvartz & Heather Grossklaus HSC 4117 Health Disparities in Diverse and Dynamic Populations John F. Kennedy University Fall 2014 Table of Contents Introduction (Daniela)..…………………………………………………………………………..3 Epidemiology (Daniela)……………………………………………………………………..........3 Ecology (Daniela)………………………………………………………………………………....4 Transmission (Daniela)……………………………………..……………………………..4 Vector Interactions (Daniela)……………………………………...………

What is Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever (EHV)? EHV is a severe and often fatal disease caused by the ebolavirus. It has an incubation period of 2 days to 3 weeks, during which the patient is not contagious. The patient will become contagious when the first symptoms appear, namely fever, sore throat, muscle pain and headaches, followed by vomiting, diarrhea, decreased kidney and liver function, and finally, internal and external bleeding. The virus can be from wild animals, as well as through human to human

In the year 1967 a disease called the Marburg virus (MVD), formerly known as Marburg hemorrhagic fever, was discovered. MVD was identified during epidemics in Marburg and Frankfurt in Germany and in Belgrade in the former Yugoslavia (now Serbia) from importation of infected African green monkeys from Uganda. Thirty-one people became sick, first the laboratory staff, followed by several family members and medical personnel who took care of the ill laboratory workers. Seven deaths were reported. The

Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is a prevalent zoonotic disease caused a tick-borne virus. Transmission of the CCHF virus to people can be either by contact with infected animals that are slaughtered or tick bites(WHO). Contamination of medical supplies, reuse of needles and improper sterilization techniques have also been attributed to the transmission of CCHF. Averagely, the fatality rate of this disease is about 30%, but the mortality rates are between 10% to 80% have been reported in

Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever is caused by a virus found in the family of filoviridae, in genus known as ebolavirus. There are currently four known Ebola virus strands that are deadly to humans. The virus is transmitted through bodily fluids so it can be transferred via mucosal surfaces or abrasions on the skin when being in direct contact to an infected person. It is highly pathogenic and causes death in approx. 50 -90% of all known cases. This laboratory and numerous experiments has shown that antigen

fact of no vaccine or treatment being discovered, but thanks to improvements in scientific and medical knowledge the virus itself is now controllable. Ebola is the virus Ebolavirus (EBOV), a viral genus, and the disease Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF), a viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF). The virus is named after the Ebola River Valley in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire), which is near the site of the first recognized outbreak in 1976 at a mission hospital run by Flemish nuns. It has

Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever is a severe and often deadly illness that occurs in humans and primates. Ebola viruses are members of the filovirus family. The Ebola virus causes the infection of this disease. There are four subtypes of the Ebola virus that have occurred in humans: Ebola Sudan, Ebola Zaire, Ebola Ivory Coast, and Ebola Bundibogyo. There was also a case of Ebola that occurred in a non-human in Reston, Virginia. The Zaire virus was the first Ebola virus discovered and it is also considered

people who were infected with EBOR (seroconverted) never developed Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF). The last known strain

political action and/or inaction.      Viral hemorrhagic fevers are a group of diseases caused by viruses from four distinct families of viruses: filoviruses, arenaviruses, flaviviruses, and bunyaviruses. The usual hosts for most of these viruses are rodents or arthropods, and in some viruses, such as the Ebola virus, the natural host is not known. All forms of viral hemorrhagic fever begin with fever and muscle

Name: TaLissa Battieste_ Causative Agent: Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever Disease: Ebola Virus Classification of the causative agent: The Ebola virus is a member if the family filoviridae and the order mononegavirales and is the causative agent of the Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever. These are enveloped viruses that have mini-genomes consisting of a single RNA molecule of negative or anti-MRNA sense. There are five different Ebola virus genomes (BDBV, EBOV, RESTV, SUDV and TAFV) that differ in sequence and the