Ebola by michael murray

INTRODUCTION

The Ebola virus was first identified in 1976 after two main out breaks in southern Sudan and Northern Zaire. The virus was named after the Ebola River Valley in Zaire where the first noticed breakout was. The poor victims from this virus have symptoms such as a fever, headache, vomiting, muscle pains, malaise, inflammation of the pharynx, bloody diarrhea, and may experience a maculopapular rash. The lifespan of the virus ranges from 2 to 21 days of intense pain and fighting for your life. The infected have an 22% chance the infected will survive, the chance of survival is so low, Because their are no treatments or cure’s. Which makes it one of the most deadly virus on Earth. Ebola turns your blood into a pudding like substance because once a virus enters your body it reproduces more of the virus threw out your blood cells. This virus only spreads threw contact with the infected body from a human or animal dead or alive. Ebola cannot be transmitted trough the air, so you must touch the virus to be infected. 25% of Apes died from ebola science 1979 and even more humans have been infected from the animal.

DISCOVERY

First recorded outbreak of Ebola occurred in Sudan between June and November 1976. It was the first discovered diagnosed breakout of Ebola. Since the discovery of the Ebola virus in 1976, there has been 13 human breakouts in Africa 9 in Eastern Zaire and 4 in Eastern Sudan, and Two isolated cases in Eastern Zaire and Easter Ivory Coast. These breakouts were during 3 distinct years, between 1976 and 1979, 4 between 1994 and 1997, and 6 between 2000 and 2004. all to gather the Ebola virus infected about 1850 people and about 1300 of the infected died. Their are different Ebola virus types, and can be found in bordering countries. The spread of Ebola is from the travel of animals and people from one country to another, causing a case of human outbreaks simultaneously. Because nearby the apes have experienced massive deaths in numbers. scientist tracked the apes and their has been four populations of apes known to have been infected and killed by the Ebola virus in eastern Zaire. In the past decades it is most likely their have been more breakouts caused from animals, but it is very difficult to find breakout detection from wild animals in rainy tropical forests. It is most likely that other apes have die-off without being recorded from Ebola too. Which means that the facts of the number of infected from Ebola are most likely underrated and the real amount that has been diagnosed we will really never know the real impact from Ebola virus on wild animals. Their is a fear that the spread of the virus continues since organizations are out helping the apes survive and not become extinct, which I think is right, but it will cause most likely more breakouts from the spread of the animals. Scientists still do not know why and how Ebola has been like an earth quake in recent years and strikes without a warning. Scientist wonder how the virus disappears for 3 years making it seem like the virus is dead, but then comes back without any warning. If the scientist can find where the virus hides they can find how to kill it.


BIOGRAPHY OF INVESTIGATOR

Dr. Ngoy Musholawho was from Bumba, was the first person to record a description of the Ebola virus in Yambuku, a town on the shores of the Ebola River. But scientist have discovered that the Ebola virus is also one of the rarest viral infections to humans, and the scariest thing about Ebola virus is not what it has done but what it might do in the future. At a local hospital in Yambuku Dr. Mushola recorded the first clinical description of a new disease (Ebola) that was killing almost all of the patients who were infected with it. The illness is characterized with a mask like or ghost like face, a high temperature of about 39°C, the vomiting of blood, diarrhea with blood, retrosternal abdominal pain, and rapid evolution death after a mean of three days, he wrote in his daily log. The illness which was later named Ebola hemorrhagic fever after the nearby river. Over the course of a few months the virus disappeared but not before 318 people contracted the virus. Nearly 90% of the victims died within a few days of becoming infected. One of the main risk factors associated with Ebola virus in the Sudan outbreak was caring for the sick. The disease was spread within hospitals and many nurses and doctors were infected. Scientists working with the live virus are also at risk and a few months after the Sudan outbreak a scientist working with the virus in England became infected after he accidentally pricked himself with an infected needle.

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IMPACT ON WORLD / HUMANITY


The impact of this virus on humanity is huge. The virus spread extremely easy and can be easily transported from Africa to lets say United states of America. The incubation time is 2 to 3 days, So if some one pick up the virus and took a plane the same day the person would feel no symptoms from the virus but would be a positive carrier of Ebola. Their was a Ebola breakout in Reston, Virginia. The infection was only effecting the monkeys and were found positive were they came from, which was Indonesia. Their has only been one Ebola transmitted disease from Congo to Canada and she was taken care of in a hospital in February 7. If this virus becomes pandemic it has potential of having more deaths than the Swine Flu.

-Journal Article Summery-

my journal article was very interesting! it showed the effects of Ebola one of the most understood disease in the world. Ebola has mysterious breakouts for three years theirs been no disease then Ebola attacks infecting African tribes with out warning and 90% of the infected die from very serious symptoms. The disease cannot be pass through the air so it gets passed by contact from humans and animals. thats why once the disease hits a family the family is going to be wiped out. Ebola is also one of the hardest diseases to get so it is extremely rare and only small tribes in africa that are dirty and no personal space have had major problems with ebola. Ebola is so unknown their is no cure and if the disease becomes pandemic the world will face a massive extermination like another ice age. Who knows maybe the dinosaurs were wiped out because of... EBOLA.


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