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.
The Ve’lodrome d’Hiver Roundup refers to the period of time when French police (Nazi directed) rounded up 11,000 people with a Jewish background, and put them in a winter, and bike stadium , called Ve’lodrome d’Hiv. Within one week the number of Jewish people stored there went from 11,000 to 13,000, 4,000 of them being children. The people being held were left extremely crowded, with almost no food, water, or sanitary rooms. The Jews were actually warned months before the arrests, but since most arrests usually targeted Jewish men, the women and children did not go into hiding. Children between the ages of 2 and 16 were arrested with their mothers.
Rabies is known as a very deadly virus spread to people from the saliva of infected animals. The rabies virus is usually transmitted through a bite. In the late 1800 rabies was well known to cause different symptoms, including itching, fever, headache, excess salivation, muscle spasms, and mental confusion. These symptoms tend to spread through entire body. Recently
Introduction Cat parvo or feline panleukopenia virus, shortly FPV has many names: infectious enteritis, parvoviral enteritis, ataxia, feline distemper or cat plague. This viral infection affects wild and domestic cats. FPV is similar to type 2 canine parvo and mink enteritis. This virus is highly contagious and can be deadly for the cat exposed to it.
Yerisinia Pestis can infect humans, insects and rodents. The primary transmitter of the disease is the oriental rat flea (Xenopsylla
Although the wounds themselves are usually not serious, infection may result. Vampire bats are considered pests in much of their range, since they frequently transmit rabies to livestock. Humans can also be infected. When the vampire bats subsequently lick the blood flowing from the tiny wound, a very strong anticoagulant in their saliva keeps the blood from clotting.
14. Zoonotic diseases can be passed from animals to humans. In addition to the virus named above, list two diseases you believe to be zoonotic, and what animal species are involved in their transmission. Two diseases that are considered zoonotic diseases are lyme disease that you can get from a tick bite and west nile disease that you can get from a mosquito bite.
Canine parvovirus is the most widely recognized cause of transmissible viral diarrhea in dogs and one of the most common infectious diseases of dogs worldwide. It is caused by variants of canine parvovirus-2 (CPV-2), which are Genus Parvovirus, affected hosts Dogs, coyotes, foxes and wolves. CPV-2 emerged in the early to mid-1970s and caused a worldwide pandemic of illness in dogs (Hoelzer and Parrish, 2010) with revealed mortality rates exceeding 90% for young non-immune dogs (Bragg et al., 2012). CPV-2 may have been derived from feline panleukopenia virus (FPV) or a closely related virus of wild carnivores. In 1979 the CPV was mutated(discovered) to CPV-2a, in 1984 to CPV-2b, and recently in 2000 it was firstly detected in Italy as
The Black Death destroyed people but not the capital or resources available to have a fertile economy. As a result of a shortage of workers’ wages rose in agriculture immediately following the end of the plague and then slowly declined as the population rebounded (Martin, 2008). Contact with animals has been the cause of the worst contagious diseases that has affected humans in past societies. Resistant strains of plague, smallpox, influenza, and others were triggered by infections which first affected domestic animals. Various non-domestic species which also came in contact with humans such as mice, fleas or lice
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In understanding Plague disease, it is important to learn about the possible treatment of the disease as well as prevention mechanisms. Understanding the causative factors and the transmission mechanisms can help understand how to keep the disease at bay. The main ways of preventing plague is through sanitation and having limited animal contact. Since plague is common in rodents and can be transmitted through fleas, it is important that rodent habitat to be reduced in areas around the workplace as well as around homes. Removing brush, rock piles, junk, clutter firewood as well as possible rodent food supplies as well as making homes rodent-proof.
Infected Animals: Ebola in West Africa The current outbreak of Ebola in West Africa is now the largest in history, but how society is just learning how it is spread. One way is by animals such as monkeys , bats, aps , pigs , and dogs. When we talk about Ebola what really is it? Well Ebola is a deadly disease that is found in several African countries.
It was a payment for a car insurance bill. My dad asked me to make a phone call to the company to ask about liability costs. He wanted to understand why the price was high, because unfortunately we couldn 't afford it. At the time, I was only ten and had no idea what liability meant, but six years away from legal driving age, I was being asked to understand the legalities of car insurance. He expected me to understand complex vocabulary and concepts because I was in school.
Human monkeypox is a viral zoonotic disease caused by the monkeypox virus (MPXV), a member of the genus Orthopoxvirus (family Poxviridae, subfamily Chordopoxvirinae), that occurs mostly in the rain forests of central and western Africa. People living in or near the forested areas may have indirect or low-level exposure, possibly leading to subclinical infection. However, the disease recently emerged in the United States in imported wild rodents from Africa. Monkeypox has a clinical presentation very similar to that of ordinary forms of smallpox, including flulike symptoms, fever, malaise, back pain, headache, and characteristic rash. Given this clinical spectrum, differential diagnosis to rule out smallpox is very important.
Unsurprisingly, a common mode of transmission is through the pet trade where humans contact animals. According to a REXANO cofounder, “Private owners of wild and exotic animals in the USA have been coming under ever increasing attacks from animal rights (AR) activist and uniformed legislators to end the private ownership of exotics in the name of ‘public safety’(Source 3).” Many large cats such as lions have escaped from their cages and terrorized communities. Several of these incidents have resulted in either serious injury to the persons who came in contact with the animal or the death of the animal or
