Ebola Zaire Essay, Research Paper

Have a throbbing headache? An ache behind the reddened eyes. Relentless now, two days ago you were normal. Nausea now sets in with a spiked fever. Next you began to vomit. After a while of intense vomiting you end up with dry heaves, and at the same time you start to become strangely passive. Your face starts to loose its normal appearance, the glow is completely gone. Your face is now an expressionless mask with slightly droopy eyelids. Your eyeballs are fixed and paralytic and you can?t help but staring at anything and nothing at the same time. Your face now begins to turn yellowish and have brilliant starlike red speckles. The description of a zombie fits you well. Your friends now seem to think of you as a different person, sullen, resentful, angry, and lacking memory. Not delirious because you still correctly answer questions. The next day vomiting returns, a deep vomit spills out. It is slippery and red, darkened with black specks that seem to resemble coffee grounds. The red spots, which a few days before were just appearing are expanding and merging in to a huge, spontaneous purple bruise. Your lacking expression is even more droopy now. Another vomit now spills even more of the vomito negro. You are hemorrhaging. You have undergone what they say as ?extreme amplification,? this is not the common cold. This virus is trying to turn you into itself. You now attempt to hold yourself rigid, afraid that any movement would rupture something internal. Blood clotting has started to occur, they began to lodge everywhere. Your liver, kidneys, lungs, hands, feet are becoming crowded with what your body hopes to use to cure you, but in fact your body is having a stroke everywhere at once. Pain is really no longer an issue know because of the clot in your brain. Your higher consciousness has begun to go, you now function using the most primitive parts of your brain. The intense vomiting has seemed to start a nosebleed, a double nosebleed that won?t stop. You are doomed.

The next stage in this extremely deadly virus is to bleed out of every orifice on your body. When you are done doing this you are dead. You have been a victim of one of the filovirus. You are one of the many to die. The inside of your body has been completely turned to a mush of blood, disintegrated tissue and viruses.

Marburg and its three sisters: Ebola Zaire, Ebola Sudan, and Ebola Reston are some of the most deadliest virus know to man. Ebola Zaire is the worst with nine out of ten people dyeing 8 to 10 days after infection. These viruses are so scary because it is fairly contagious and goes with out a cure, antidote, or vaccine. These viruses are more deadly that the plague could ever be. The are spread through blood or semen from one host to another.

It is believed that these viruses came from monkeys that were brought into different regions for scientific testing then made a jump over to humans to spread the chaos off in our population. Marburg was the first of the filoviruses sisters to be discovered and was then thought of as stretched rabies. It?s first outbreak was in Germany when it killed seven employees of a firm dealing in pharmicuticals.

Its sister was bad enough but Ebola Zaire has killed so many more. On May 22, 1995 there was a outbreak in action in the central African nation of Zaire. Government had to quarantine a city of 500,00 with a death count of 48, then seven days later the death count was at 97. This is just one of three major outbreaks in Africa in the past 19 years. Ebola Zaire was first identified nine years later when a village was struck with the virus which ended wiping out 800 villagers. There have been hundreds of deaths through out Zaire and neighboring Sudan because of this filoviruses.

Ebola is considered a level four biocontainment. The levels are labeled as 0, 2, 3, and finally 4. Levels 2 and 3 require numerous vaccines to protect the scientist who work there. there is no point in getting vaccines for level four hot agent because it is a lethal virus and if you come down with them your dead.

Even though it was Ebola Reston that ended up in the U.S., the only Ebola that won?t infect humans, it only massively wipes out monkeys, but the threat is still there. Possibly the U.S. will be the next site for the out brake of the deadly virus, Ebola Zaire.