Ebola
5 Fun Facts:
- Kills 90% of its victims
- reproduce in 8 hours--millions of viruses comes out
- June-November 1976--Ebola infected 284 people and 117 deaths in Sudan
- Ebola is still limited to parts in Africa
- Most deadly and painful virus
Stats:
- Guinea - 2134 cases, 1260 deaths
- Liberia - 7168 cases, 3016 deaths
- Mali - 8 cases, 6 deaths
- Nigeria - 20 cases, 8 deaths
- Senegal - 1 case, 0 deaths (infection originated in Guinea)
- Sierra Leone - 6599 cases, 1398 deaths
- Spain - 1 case, 0 deaths
Importance:
- Symptoms appears mostly at 8-10 days after exposure to the virus
- Ebola is not transmissible if one is asymptomatic (can you explain) or once has recovered from it.
- Ebola can be spread through aerosols surface--door knobs
- Hospital is the most dangerous place to be in during an Ebola outbreak
- Fever can be up to at least 100.4 degrees
How to prevent Ebola:
- wash your hands with soap
- don’t touch others blood or body fluids
- stay away from animals that might carry Ebola (ex: African fruit bats)
- dont touch Ebola victims
- don’t eat street food--not clean
BBC News:
According to BBC news, a 39 year old woman volunteered to participate in an experiment for the development of an Ebola vaccine. It revealed that the vaccine is safe and might help the immune system to fight against the virus. “On safety and on the ability to produce an appropriate immune response, we can call this trial an unqualified success, even though it was an early Phase One trial”- said Dr Anthony Fauci.
Volunteers were divided into 2 groups. One group received a high dose, and the other received low dose. The group that received the higher dose had a stronger immune response against the virus. Seven people that received the high dose produced T-cell immune responses. The development and production of this vaccine might be important to the cure for Ebola viruses.
how did African fruit able to carry the Ebola virus? aren't their main sources is fruits and some small insect not sucking blood? how are the bats able to carry Ebola virus which that infect through body fluids and blood?
ReplyDeletei wonder if the vaccine have any after affect? and about when will the vaccine be finish?
Jerod, some species of bats eat blood of live animals, but I agree that it is highly unlikely that they would be a vector of the virus.
DeleteI think this blog if very well written. It provided its sources and has a lot of detailed information/stats. The "Symptoms" section and the "Prevent" section is very thoughtful. These two sections taught us how to identify a real Ebola case, and what we can do to prevent it.
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