Essays on Ebola Virus

Ebola virus, a member of the Filoviridae, burst from obscurity with spectacular outbreaks of severe, haemorrhagic fever. It was first associated with an outbreak of 318 cases and a case-fatality rate of 90% in Zaire and caused 150 deaths among 250 cases in Sudan. Smaller outbreaks continue to appear periodically, particularly in East, Central and…

In the Cote d’Ivoire, besides called the Ivory Coast, is where my step-mother was raised as a kid. She remembers the horrifying shops narratives of blood-eyed small town adult male that turned to liquid. She has ne’er experienced an Ebola eruption, but ever feared its coming. The name Ebola is one that strikes fright in…

The largest epidemic of Ebola virus disease (EVD) was experienced between December 2013 and April 2016 where it recorded more than 28,000 cases with more than 11,000 deaths in Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia. Studying this epidemic in the West African countries has led to an understanding of the disease and the generation of insights…

Plot Outline: Ebola is very much a hardy virus that can live outside of the human body, unlike HIV. It can be found in trace amounts in tears, blood, and even on the surface of the skin. The virus operates by attacking the vital organs, causing massive bleeding internally and externally. There is no cure,…

In the year 1976, Ebola climbed out of its unknown hiding place, and caused the death of 340 people. Fear gripped the victim’s faces, and uncertainty tortured their minds. The people of Zaire waited outside clinics, churches and in their homes for a treatment of the horrible disease, but there was no cure. They were…

Throughout history a variety of deadly diseases have threatened mankind.Many diseases have the capability to spread fast and rapidly kill people.But with modern advances in medicine, man had defeated most of these deadly diseases and thought the threat was over.However, a shockingly new and deadly disease caused by the Ebola virus has challenged the medical…

The Ebola Virus A virus is an ultramicroscopic infectious organism that, having noindependent metabolic activity, can replicate only within a cell of another hostorganism. A virus consists of a core of nucleic acid, either RNA or DNA,surrounded by a coating of antigenic protein and sometimes a lipid layersurrounds it as well. The virus provides the…

(And The Band Played On) The movie “And the band played on” was all about the beginning of the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) epidemic in the United States. This disease also has similar symptoms from Ebola Fever, the one that affected the lives of people in Congo. This disease is attacking the immune system…

Ebola hemorrahagic fever is a 20 year old virus that, with a mortalityrate of 50% to 90%, is one of the world’s deadliest viruses. Its causativeorganism is called Ebola virus. Ebola virus is a member of filoviridae, afamily of negative-strained RNA viruses. The filoviridae family consists offive known members, Marburg, Ebola Zaire, Ebola Sudan, Ebola…