Essays on Natural Reservoir

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Ebola virus, well known for its hemorrhagic effects produced inside as well as outside of body. This virus progresses with bleeding, which leads to organ failure and if not treated properly can also cause death. ("Ebola virus and Marburg virus - Mayo Clinic", 2016). Ebola is also termed as Ebola Hemorrhagic fever because of its hemorrhagic property and it is also known to cause the death of 90% effected people ("Ebola Virus: Symptoms, Treatment, and Prevention", 2016). There are 5 strains of this virus and four of them are known to cause deadly symptoms like hemorrhage. Ebola have its ...

The current Ebola outbreak has been termed as the largest outbreak in West Africa posing a threat to the public health not only locally, but also internationally. The latest outbreak began in late 2013 in Guinea and later dispersed in Liberia in March 2014. By August 14, 19 case of Ebola virus disease (EVD) have been reported in Liberal, which was 12 percent of 810 cases of the diseases reported globally (Arwady et al. 2015). In 1976, the outbreak was associated with 318 cases. However, the prevalence of the disease throughout 2014 revealed the lack of preparedness procedures and ...

E COLI O157

WHAT IS ECO157? Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157 or otherwise known as “EHEC O157” is also called as the “verocytotoxin” which produces “shiga toxin” and the end result is EcO157 (Islam, et al., 2014, p.1). The E coli O157 has been reported as a food-borne pathogen known world-wide. One of the harmful effects of E coli O157 is that it can create hemorrhagic colitis that carries severe sequelae such as the hemolytic uremic syndrome as the product of the “shiga toxin” that came from the organism that can act on the human kidney, intestine and other parenchymatous organs (Islam, et ...