Lassa fever

The Ebola spread from Guinea to Liberia and Sierra Leone after the announcement from both HealthMap and WHO highlighted the lack of tools, infrastructure and resources available in West Africa, charity organisations and other health and government agencies began researching information on Ebola and the current medical products and technologies available and proceeded to plan financial requirements to consider the purchasing of essential resources and the possibility of patient payment methods (Shoman

doctors are returning from Africa, new procedures and guidelines are being developed. Kaci Hickox is a nurse who recently returned to the U.S. from treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone. She was quarantined for 21 days because she had a slight fever, which is one of the symptoms of Ebola. Ms. Hickox stated that she is “scared about how health care workers will be treated at airports when they declare that they have been fighting Ebola in West Africa. I am scared that, like me, they will arrive

Methods The rVSV-ZEBVO (recombinant Vesicular Stomatitis Virus-Zaire strain of Ebola virus) vaccine is considered a live recombinant virus. The vaccine consists of a VSV strain Indiana, with a glycoprotein that is part of the ZEBOV Kikwit 1995 strain. This strain replaces the gene for the VSV envelope glycoprotein. The Public Health Agency of Canada is who developed the vaccine but is licensed and sponsored to BioProtection Systems. It is sub-licensed by a company called Merck. They are responsible

The Cotton Club A speakeasy with the best music and performers. The Cotton Club was best known for its wonderful music and great alcohol. It gave black musicians a place to perform and a gateway to fame. The club was also a place where white folks could go to enjoy themselves. Although it was very successful it would be shut down several times but then it would be reopened just as quickly. The Cotton Club was notably one of the best nightclubs of its time. The Cotton Club was not always the same

Ebola Virus Disease Richard Wakeland St. Petersburg College Ebola Virus Disease Ebola virus disease (EVD) formerly known as Ebola hemorrhagic fever is an often fatal disease caused by a virus. This virus can cause severe hemorrhagic fever in humans (Occupational Safety & Health Administration [OSHA], N.D.). With world worldwide attention for its high mortality rate, lack of effective treatment or vaccination EVD has become an important public health pathogen (Feldmann & Geisbert, 2011).

Bioterrorism Introduction Imagine the United States fifteen years from now, 2030 an Ebola outbreak has accord. Infection spreading every second, cities all over America growing anxious not knowing how to react to such a deadly disease. Humans trying to find a safe place to shelter their family frustrated with the little supplies of food and water left to help them surviver for at least the next few days, but knowing they can’t do anything because the deadly virus is everywhere. Hospitals all over

Science Magazine’s article, “Bat-filled tree may have been ground zero for the Ebola epidemic”, covers the possibility of bats being the source of the current Ebola outbreak. Scientists speculate that the first victim of the Ebola virus contracted the virus from a bat. The bat, an Angolan free-tailed bat, feeds on small insects (Science Magazine 2014). In Emile’s village these bats inhabited a hollowed tree, which was a popular spot for children to play and hunt the bats. Since the discovery of the

Wendy Orent, writing this article after the Ebola outbreak, states that Ebola doesn’t have what it takes to produce a pandemic. Orent believes that there’s no way the next pandemic will spring on us, unlike the ideas of Frank Macfarlane, a virologist. Orent’s theory is that the only way a real pandemic can happen is through social conditions like refugee camps or crowded hospitals. The article begins by taking the reader back to when fear of the virus first struck. This gives the reader background

The Hot Zone is a true story that begins with a man named Charles Monet in 1980. Charles was a French expatriate living in Kenya that began showing symptoms of a Marburg Strain within days after a trip with a girlfriend to Kitum Cave. The symptoms include: constant headache, throwing up blood, bleeding from the anus, lost of spine control, expelling of intestinal lining, then death. Charles had these symptoms and eventually died. This virus became known as Ebola Sudan because it was discovered

“History”, “sophistication”, and “culture” are one of the many terms used when describing the Chicago. There are many nightlife establishments that embrace the terms named, but very few if any embody all three, until now. The Kent Lounge will be hallmark, standard, and cornerstone of the Chicago nightlife industry. In addition from the righteous tunes of Jazz and R&B, and containing an ambience that will sooth any soul, Kent Lounge will conquer all spectrums to be deemed as one of the most elite