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    Small Animal Management SA-1105-201 11/9/2016 Newcastle Disease Virus Morgan Kyle Crystal Curico Andrea Drumbore Erica Levins Devan Mazza-McDonald Rhianna Smith Kylie Tuller There was a local hatchery farm who was commonly known for breeding and raising poultry for food. There were many complaints against the facility about the living conditions for the animals as well as the safety for the staff. Inspector Joe was called in to investigate the accusations

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    On the 8th of August 2014 the World Health Organisation declared the current outbreak of Ebolavirus to be an international health emergency. This epidemic is the largest ever seen of the disease, and is located in West Africa - particularly in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. At present it has led to over 5,000 deaths, with more than 14,000 people having been infected. Ebola virus disease (EVD) has been portrayed by some as a major threat to health outside of West Africa, though this is disputed

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    Children around the world fear the dark because they do not understand it. Much like a child’s fear of the dark, the panic caused by the Ebola virus is largely due to misunderstanding and is often blown out of proportion. The Ebola virus is discussed in the media because it generates hysteria, even though it is nowhere near as threatening as it is often claimed to be. Do not make the assumption that the virus itself is not lethal, as indeed it is one of the deadlier pathogens in the world; however

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    Rabies Is A Virus?

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    Rabies belongs to the order Mononegavirales, family Rhabdoviridae, genus Lyssavirus. (7) Six other lyssaviruses also cause rabies (Lagos Bat, Mokola Virus, Duvenhage Virus, European Bat Virus 1 & 2, and Australian Bat Virus). (7) This is not, however, an exhaustive list as public health experts suspect other pathogens will be discovered. (7) Because rabies is a virus (and not a bacterium), this microbe is neither gram positive nor negative. Microscopic Appearance Under a microscope, Lyssavirus

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    The Ebola Virus Essay

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    believed to be infected directly from the natural reservoir or through a chain of transmission from the natural reservoir.” (3) Etiological agent: Filoviridae “Together with Marburg virus, Ebola makes up the family Filoviridae, of the order Mononegavirales ( the non-segmented, negative-sense, single-stranded RNA viruses” (5) Four identified subtypes of Ebola: (4) · Ebola-Zaire, Ebola-Sudan, Ebola-Ivory Coast (cause disease in humans) · Ebola-Reston (cause disease in non-human primates

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    Tracking the Ebola Virus

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    These past years I spent my time tracking the virus of Ebola as well as its various strains all over the world. At first I didn’t know of the disease, only of the mysterious deaths. I had heard a rumor of a man by the name of Monet who had become mysteriously sick with a disease that none have seen. This information led me to Nairobi, Kenya where the man was supposed to be. When I arrived at Nairobi Hospital I didn’t encounter the man of my search. I questioned a nurse, who asked not to be named

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    From the first outbreak in DRC in 1976 to the recent epidemic in West Africa (2013 - 2015), there has been a considerable amount of research done to further the development of the diagnosis and therapeutic strategies of the Ebola virus. Methods for detecting the virus have improved drastically. From the initial stage of simply identifying the virus as a whole, diagnosis can now define the specific species of the virus. Diagnosis processes developed over the years are those that involve Cell Culture

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    Introduction The human body is comprised of an abundance of microorganisms that are considered part of our normal and healthy microbiota.8 Most of these microorganisms are typically not injurious, but under certain conditions or when a patient is immunocompromised, some microorganisms may produce infectious diseases.7 Infectious diseases are ailments caused by the opportunistic pathogens already present in our bodies or other harmful microorganisms that were acquired from traveling, hospitals, outdoors

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    Health Case Study

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    results in death or survival with no disabilities so there are no other methods of prevention to discuss. The primary issue with EVD is that the locations in which this disease usually appears is not prepped for the rapid treatment and management of many of these cases. The patients are hypovolemic, vomiting, require constant aid to prevent hyper-perfusion of the organs and all the while require PPE (Bah et al., 2015). Not only is this strenuous on any health-care personnel, it requires intense staffing

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    bacteria called Mononegavirales is the agent of ebola, or the one that carry and spread the disease. Fruit bats and humans are host of Ebola. People believe that bats caught the disease and then humans ate those bats and humans then caught the disease. Younger or older people can catch this disease. This disease was found in West Africa and in lives in hot or warm climates. Mononegavirales is the agent of Ebola. Mononegavirales is a very dangerous bacteria. ¨The order Mononegavirales is the taxonomic

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