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    The Deadly Ebola Virus Essay

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    It’s a world class traveler, but it doesn’t have a passport. It’s highly contagious, but it can’t be cured. Ebola: (EBOV) the virus that has captured the attention of viewers worldwide with its recent outbreak. The World Health Organization has confirmed that 5,288 people have recently lost their lives to the contagious virus, and due to the rising death tolls, have marked this outbreak to be the deadliest. The sudden reappearance of EBOV has not only encouraged the continued effort towards containment

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    viral reproduction. The exact process what happens next is not fully known but the virus attacks the connective tissue and reproduces at an extremely fast rate in the collagen, digesting the tissue as it goes. The virus can ultimately cause viral hemorrhagic fever. When the macrophages in our body register the virus and consume it, they end up becoming infected and are manipulated to release proteins that trigger coagulation – create small clots in the blood. This leads to the blood slowly thickening

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    fight off the disease then the body has antibodies to Ebola for up to 10 years. The two diseases have similar symptoms, fever, nausea, headaches, fatigue and diarrhea. However, Norovirus is known for gastroenteritis and Ebola is known for the hemorrhagic fever. This also mimics the flu or cold so it can be mistaken and not handled properly in the beginning stages. The way Norovirus exits

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    The Ebola Virus, also called hemorrhagic fever, is a highly contagious and often fatal disease. Ebola is a very rare disease caused through an infection with a strain of Ebola Virus. Ebola is spread through through direct contact with bodily fluids from a victim who already shows the symptoms. Some common symptoms are fever, fatigue, weakness, reddened eyes, joint and muscle pain, headache, and extreme nausea. Symptoms may become prevalent any time between 3 and 21 days. No pathologist today is

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    Emergency Preparedness is known to be the discipline of dealing with and avoiding both natural and man-made disasters. It involves mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery in order to lessen the impact of disasters and public health threats. Emergency preparedness requires a partnership among all levels of government (local, State, and Federal) and the private sector (business and industry, voluntary organizations, and the public). Successful preparedness requires detailed planning and cooperation

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    Purpose To determine if African migrants should be permitted to enter Canada given the current outbreak of the Ebola virus disease (EVD) in regions of Africa. Issue EVD is a serious, infectious and often fatal hemorrhagic fever that is found in both humans and animals. EVD is commonly fatal when untreated because it affects the vascular system leading to internal bleeding and organ failure (CNN, 2014). The current outbreak of EVD is the worst in history and has already killed hundreds (CNN, 2014);

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    Ebola Virus Disease is often referred to as a virus that causes severe bleeding, organ failure, and can lead to death. It was formally known as Ebola hemorrhagic fever. Ebola can cause disease in humans and also in non-human species, such as monkeys, gorillas, and chimpanzees. Altogether, information about Ebola Virus Disease will include: the background, transmission, symptoms and diagnosis, and treatment and prevention. Ebola Virus Disease was given it 's name from the Ebola River in the Democratic

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    virus was first discovered in 1967. It was the first virus of the Filoviridae family uncovered; Ebola was the second, being discovered in 1976. Ebola was initially encountered in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where several outbreaks of Hemorrhagic Fever were documented. Teams sent to deal with these outbreaks found an almost total cessation of transmission. Survivors, however, provided an excellent source of data. The survivors demonstrated that the reason for this cessation was that the

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    Biocontrol of seven Vero-toxigenic E. coli with lytic bacteriophage for lettuce, sprouts, and seeds With the high morbidity and mortality in hemorrhagic colitis outbreaks caused by E. coil O157:H4, Verotoxigenic Escherichia coli (VTEC) was first described in Canada during the 1980s (Woodward 2002) Verotoxigenic E coli (VTEC) or Shiga-toxigenic E coli, including O157:H7 and other non-O157 serogroups, include O26, O45, O103, O111, O121, and O145, which are increasingly cause foodborn illness in United

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    EBOLA FACT FILE Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) is a severe and often fatal disease that can occur in humans and nonhuman primates (such as monkeys and gorillas). The outbreaks of EVD occur predominantly in remote villages in Central and West Africa, near tropical rainforests and where contact with animals is more likely to take place. EVD is transmitted into the human population through close contact with the blood, secretions, organs or other bodily fluids of infected animals (typically nonhuman primates

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