Marburg

1. Introduction The Ebola virus (EBOV) is a dangerous virus which has a chance of mortality when infected up to 90%. This makes it one of the most deadly viruses for humans in the world. 1, 2 It does not stop there. Various EBOV outbreaks have fatally infected 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

One of these is Marburg virus, the symptoms of the strange disease progressed from the initial flu-like stage to acute viremia. The World Health Organization gave Marburg it's highest rating in its risk group categorization of disease. There is no cure for this disease at this moment. In between the two Ugandan and Rhodesian outbreaks of Marburg, another new disease appeared on 12 January 1969 known as Lassa fever symptoms include

mainly the Ebola and Marburg viruses. It primarily focuses on the Ebola virus’ first documented outbreak during the 1980s. As you read The Hot Zone, you will notice that it has been divided into four individual segments. The first segment looks into the history of filoviruses, and how AIDS emerged. The novel begins with Charles Monet, an elderly man who travels to Kitum Cave in Kenya. After coming in contact with an odd liquid substance, he begins to experience symptoms of the Marburg Virus (abbreviated

Timothy Towers Becky Austin Honors English IV April 18th, 2014 The Brothers Grimm, Romanticism, and Hansel and Gretel Today when one thinks about the Grimm Brothers, they most likely think about how widespread their stories are, being that they are told in many homes and have had many adaptations of them. This was not the case however when Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm first started to write and collect their tales. Many were uncomfortable with them and the very violent scenes they had. People

everyone because she exposed everyone to the disease. It caused panic because she might have caused an worldwide epidemic since she exposed people in a very large city. Tom Geisbert beings to panic because he believes his has stumbles along Ebola Marburg. He is frightened because he also was exposed to it about ten days before he found it. To make matters worse, he wasn’t the only one, C. J. Peters and Peter Jahrling were also exposed to the virus. 'The slammer' is a term that means the hospital quarantine

Science has offered mankind various alternative methods to stop diseases from invading the human body. Whether, it be a vaccine, a pill, or various collaborative methods, mankind is in the pursuit of controlling and isolating the Ebola virus disease. Ebola is a disease that not only consumes the lives of many, but also consumes the infrastructure of many villages, towns, and their way of life. The Ebola virus is one of the most dangerous diseases because it suppresses the immune system, damages

In this thrilling novel, The Hot Zone by Richard Preston tells the story of a virus so notorious for its mysterious attacks that it is deemed a Bio-safety Level 4 virus. Richard Preston acquired his inspiration and insight first from his curiosity in his visit to Africa to study epidemiology and second from certain contacts, Dr. C.J. Peters and Nancy Jaax, whom have helped to further Preston’s knowledge of Bio-safety Level 4 agents. Preston incorporates historical facts, interview encounters, and

1. Based on Chapter 2: Of Microbes and Men (Pages 28 – 51) a. Describe in details the four ways in which bacteria increase their genetic diversity. (10 points) One of the four ways that bacteria can increase their genetic diversity is by conjugation. This is a process by which a bacterium can transfer genetic material to another bacterium of different mating type, through direct contact. During conjugation one bacterium is going to be the receptor of the genetic material while the other is going

1. The brothers Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm, were born in Hanau - close to Frankfurt - into a family of nine children, three of whom died in infancy. 2. Both brothers attended the University of Marburg where they studied law and medieval German literature. With little money in their family, the Grimms studied hard. 3. In 1808, Jacob was appointed court librarian to the King of Westphalia who was Jérôme Bonaparte - Napoleon's younger brother. It was around this time that the Grimms started to collect

cultural researchers and authors. Together they collected and published strange folklore in the 19th century. After their father died the family suddenly became very poor and that affected them for many years, but still they went to the University of Marburg and that is when they first became curious about German folklore and that became a lifelong dedication to collecting them. A lot of the stories that they collected are still told today and there have been made a lot of movies from those stories, for