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set out to control the epidemic. Starting with one of the four filoviruses mentioned in the book, Preston provided us with the story of Charles Monet, an amateur French naturalist who died a gruesome death after contracting Marburg virus following a trip to Mount Elgon. Marburg is brought up in the story several times as a close relative of Ebola, having similar symptoms and equal danger. Throughout the next several chapters, different strains of Ebola are reviewed; the Sudan

The Alien and Sedition Acts The Federalists enacted the controversial Alien and Sedition Acts in order to limit the power of the Republicans. The Naturalization Act changed the five-year wait time to fourteen years for new immigrants to become US citizens. The Sedition Acts banned people from publishing or saying anything that would criticize the government. Because of the anti- French feelings across America, President John Adams signed the Alien and Sedition Acts in 1798, which were four

In 1980 a man named Charles Monet went on a trip with a girlfriend up to Mountain Elgon in West Kenya. They spent the night there and went to a large cave called Kitcum cave. Three days after his return home, Charles began to have a headache. A few days later he went to the doctors and they told him he should go to a bigger/better hospital in Nairobi. So Charles flew to Nairobi. During the flight to Nairobi Charles found himself vomiting blood with a black liquid. Charles finally reached the hospital

The Majority of people have grown up watching and reading the stories of Cinderella, Snow White, and Sleeping Beauty all of which were produced by Disney. But what if I told you that the versions you grew up watching and reading are far from the original versions depicted by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, better known as the Brothers Grimm. In their tale of “Cinderella” there was no fairy godmother; the stepsisters cut off portions of their feet to fit into the slipper and none of the animals talked or

The Grim Brothers Jakob Grimm the older brother was born on January 4, 1785 and his younger brother Wilhelm Grimm was born February 24, 1786 both of them were born in Hanau Germany and were both the oldest surviving children out of 6 including them from Dorothea and Philip Grimm. As young kids they spent most of their time together beside from spending a long period of time apart they were together for the rest of their lives. Their low temper made it easy to cooperate and work together on projects

Bats are already known to transmit another disease similar to the Ebola virus, called the Marburg virus (Scientific American 2014). If the Angolan free-tailed bat is the culprit, how does it spread the virus to humans? There are various possibilities. From the consumption of the bat, called bush meat (Scientific American 2014), to eating food

The Ebola Virus is an extremely deadly virus found in Africa. There have been multiple outbreaks across Africa and one in the United States. The Ebola virus basically causes uncontrollable bleeding externally and internally. Then your organs become liquefied. This usually results in death(www.encyclopedia.com). The following report contains info on the characteristics and history of the Ebola Virus. After being infected with the Ebola virus it takes 2-21 days to take effect. It depends if you

Fever, severe headache, joint and muscle aches, the chills and weakness (Mayo Clinic Staff, 2014). Those are just some of the early symptoms of Zaire ebolavirus. This virus is also known as EBOV, Ebola hemorrhagic fever, and the Ebola virus (Mulherkar, Raaben, Torre, Whelan, & Chandran, 2011). A couple days after the early symptoms appear, infected people start to feel nausea, vomit, have bloody diarrhea, red eyes, raised rash, chest pain and cough, stomach pain, severe weight loss, bleeding from

that took place in England in order to gain indepence from the pope. "Defender of the Faith" has been one of the cornerstone titles of the Englishmonarchs since it was granted on 11 October, 1521 by Pope Leo X to King Henry VIII of England. The Marburg Colloquy was a meeting held in Germany which attempted to solve a disputation

Ebola Virus Ebola virus (EBOV) is considered to be one of the most belligerent contagious agents and has an ability to cause highly fatal hemorrhagic fever syndrome that results in human and non-human primate’s death (NHPs) during the days of exposure. The first notification of the virus was mentioned in the Ebola River valley in Zaire for the time of an outburst in 1976. Moreover, the outbursts have appeared in Africa over the following 27 years, with death rates that differ from 50 to 90%. In