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Compare And Contrast Ebola And Epidemiology

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Epidemiology was a concept that was analyzed in chapter one and is defined as “the study of the causes and distribution of disease” (Clarke, 2016). When it comes to disease epidemics there is a high need for national communication and social unity to help narrow down those that are affected. The textbook analyzes two diseases that have affected the world since the early 2000’s, SARS and more recently Ebola. SARS and Ebola had completely different outcomes due to how those in power and the medical community reacted. SARS was quickly controlled and preventative measures were put into place to isolate those that were infected, whereas with Ebola the same precautions were not taken. Thus, Ebola spread at a faster rate intimately causing higher amount of fatalities. …show more content…

These preventative measures and fast efforts from all of the medical community put into place for SARS ultimately lowered the death told and the amount of individuals that tested positive for the illness. If the same protocol was put into place for Ebola, the death toll could have been much lower and the rate of spreading could have been drastically decreased. Jon Cohen examines a “new public-private coalition that aims to derail epidemics by speeding development of vaccines” (Cohen, 2016). This new coalition could help eliminate the devastation and amount of fatalities that previous epidemics have caused. This coalition would give countries the ability to have the resources, vaccines, that would be needed to protect their citizens from any potential threats and outbreaks that may

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In response to the Ebola scare in 2014, many people evinced strong fear and xenophobia (Kim, 2016). Especially about the zombie-like symptoms of the virus. In addition how does the virus slowly kills the victim without even realizing that he’s suffering from Ebola virus by replicating and filling the body with crystallized viruses hence damaging the human cells just like a new living organism controls another’s body and killing it bit by bit. To exemplify my relatives used to live in kenya about 43 years ago they were surrounded by ill people that make them terrified and fearful of getting the highly contagious disease, therefore they left kenya and currently they live in the UAE. The most complicated part if you were surrounded by Ebola virus is to calm people down and instead of leaving the country finding beneficial solutions so that the virus won’t disperse from one country to another.

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Doctors were frantic; going from one patient to another. There was just no method or theory about how the fever was spreading. Each day, more and more people were dying or becoming infected. The capital of the United States knew, this was no ordinary epidemic. Days passed, and the city turned into chaos.

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Nancy Jaax almost became infected when she tore her space suit while performing an autopsy on an infected monkey. Luckily she didn’t, but danger can happen around any corner. Even though Doctors new a lot about Ebola it was still very scary and unpredictable to work on. The beginning of the book gives the reader a very description of what Ebola is and does to its unlucky victims. “Ebola the slate wiper, did things to people that you do not want to think about.

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In the Hot Zone, Richard Preston demonstrates how devastating Ebola and other filoviruses can be to large populations. In the book, Preston describes true events during an outbreak of Ebola virus at a Monkey facility in Reston, Virginia in 1980. He also gives background from other viral outbreaks in Africa in the 1970’s and 1980’s.

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The community is scared of patients in quarantine and health consequences occur such as the inability to get food from the grocery store, go to the bank or write cheques and the victims are encouraged to stay indoors. This puts victims at risk for mental consequences such as depression and mental illnesses related to isolation. Health care workers risked their lives to interact and treat the victims in the story as well as an anonymous nurse who showed Bruce their support by leaving groceries outside his door (CBC, 2013). 5. The Ebola virus is spread through infected body fluids that get in your mucous membranes or breaks in the skin and it is only contagious when the infected individual presents with symptoms know as droplet spread.

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The Great War was coming to end and with it soldiers were returning home. Returning home with them was a disease known as influenza. The global interconnectedness from this total war not only connected people and violence but also spread the flu. Influenza killed many citizens globally and was difficult to stop, due to a lack of medical knowledge. Africa and India had a similar response to the influenza epidemic as both blamed the unfortunateness on the divine.

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Once they understood the severity, people that were believed to have Ebola were put into isolation rooms and the staff that entered the room had to be in special suits. The hospitals were devastated at the loss of the patients and doctors. The book does not go into detail about hospitals doing research other than the isolation rooms and suits. The loved ones also did not understand that Ebola kills nine of every ten people it affects. Many times the people said if only they had gotten the person who died in a hospital sooner that they would not have died.

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One of the most surprising pieces of information that I learned while reading The Hot Zone was that human advancement contributes greatly to the spread of disease. In the final chapter of the book, Preston explains how the Kinshasa Highway, a highway that runs through the middle of Africa, aided and sped up the spread of the AIDS virus. This is a great example of how a highway destined to ease trade in Africa, turned into a human achievement spreading a terrible disease. Richard Preston also explains in great detail how diseases are spread which helped me have a great deal of new knowledge about disease, something I knew very little about. Not only does he explain the spread of Marburg, Ebola, and AIDS, but he also explains specific cases that apply to each of the

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Ebola, despite being discovered in the 1970s, was still mysterious at the time of this big outbreak. The symptoms of Ebola includes internal and external bleeding, vomiting blood, Headache, difficulty breathing, and lack of appetite. Because we had no knowledge and preparation on Ebola, the virus was spread between others in a massive scale. At one point during the outbreak, a deadly strain of Ebola hit Zaire, erupting simultaneously in some 50 villages, killed nine out of ten people it infected. Zaire's president, Mobutu Sese Seko, called out his army to seal the Kinshasa hospital and the entire zone of infected villages, with orders to shoot anyone trying to come out.

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Could Edgar Allan Poe, the author of “ The Masque of the Red Death” could have been talking about modern day Ebola? In Edgar 's story the outbreak had some similarities with modern day Ebola, but it was just a coincidence. There 's absolutely no way Edgar Allan Poe could 've known about Ebola before it actually happened. Although Edgar was the only author to use the sickness before it happened, it wouldn 't be that hard to come up with it. Having blood coming leaking out of you isn 't common, but it does make a good story and Edgar Allan Poe saw potential in his idea.

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It is believed that the fruit bats first carried the disease Ebola. Being that it is contagious, scientists and doctors believe the disease first transferred to humans when people ate the fruit bats. With the Red Death, you died within thirty minutes. In those times, they were not sanitary. They could have had the symptoms for a long time and not known about it until it became severe, the day, or hour, they would die.

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Print. "UN Meeting Urges Critical Improvements to Health Systems of Ebola-affected Countries." UN News Center. United Nations, 12 Dec. 2014. Web.

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The Ebola virus has always been around, but it has mostly been contained within Africa; but when a doctor visited Africa to treat the disease, he ended up contracting it and bringing it to America, where at least two other people contracted Ebola from him. America tried to ignore the Ebola virus in Africa until it entered the country, just like how Prospero tried to ignore the Red Death while it raged outside of the castellated abbeys, and only tried to address the problem when it appeared at his door. This is proven within the story, when “It was toward the close of the fifth or sixth month of his seclusion, and while pestilence raged most furiously abroad, that the Prince Prospero entertained his thousand friends at a masked ball of the most unusual magnificence” (83). While Prince Prospero could have been making efforts to calm his people or look into ending the plague, he chose to host a masquerade ball instead, leaving over half of his kingdom to fall ill and die a gruesome, painful

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Like the Spanish Flu, Covid-19 is a highly contagious virus that led to a global crisis, becoming a pandemic. Both pandemics have claimed millions of lives worldwide, causing widespread devastation. However, advancements in medical science have allowed for rapid vaccine development, providing a significant remedy against Covid-19. Vaccination efforts have played a crucial role in gaining immunity and controlling the spread of the

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They did not dispose of them properly or sterilize the needles. EBO-Z was then spread throughout YMH, infecting staff members as well as patients” (Commission). This encounter shows how Ebola Zaire (EBO-Z) has been easily spread throughout the YMH and can ruin the human population. EBO-Z will eat its victim and lead them to a painful death. The earliest known outbreak was located at Yambuku, Democratic Republic of Congo, suggesting that all known outbreaks evolved from a Yambuku like virus after nineteen seventy-six.

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